Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Program

Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Program
Landscape Design for Wildlife
Nest Boxes for Birds
Woodworking Projects for Wildlife
Hummingbirds and How to Attract Them
Winter Bird Feeding
Ponds and Birdbaths
Butterflies and How to Attract Them
 
- Creating Butterfly Gardens
- Butterfly Plants (Table 1)
- Furnish Breeding and Feeding Grounds
- Create a Planting Plan
- Plant the Garden & Enhancement Features for Butterflies
- Watching Butterflies and Conducting a Butterfly Survey
- Common Pacfic Northwest Butterflies (Table 2)
- Resources
Book Resource and Sales

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Resources

Books

  • Brewer, J. and D. Winter. Butterflies and Moths: A Companion to Your Field Guide. Prentice Hall, New York, 1986.
  • Emmel, Thomas C. Butterfly Gardening. Friedman/Fairfax, 1997.
  • Link, Russell. Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1999.
  • Pyle, Robert Michael. Handbook for Butterfly Watchers. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1992.
  • Skelly, Flora Johnson and Brett Johnson. Butterfly Gardening in Western Washington. Wild Words, Redmond, WA, 1998. Available from Wild Words, Box 464, 23316 NE Redmond-Fall City Road, Redmond, WA 98053. www.wildwords.com
  • Xerces Society/Smithsonian Institution. Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden. 2nd edition. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1999.
  • Any of these books by Robert Michael Pyle:
    • Watching Washington Butterflies
    • The Eco-Geographic Basis for Lepidoptera Conservation
    • The Audubon Socity Field Guide to North American Butterflies
    • The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book (with S.M. Wells & N.M. Collings)
    • Handbook for Butterfly Watchers
    • Butterflies: A Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book (with Sarah Ann Hughes & Roger Tory Peterson)
    • Insects: A Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book (with Kristin Kest)
    • Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land
    • The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland
    • Where Bigfoot Walks: Across the Dark Divide
    • Chansing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
    • Nabokov's Butterflies (with Brian Boyd & Dmitri Nabokov
    • Walking the High Ridge: Life as a Field Trip
    • The Butterflies of Cascadia

Field Guides

  • Mitchell, R.T, and H.S. Zim. Golden Nature Guide Series. Butterflies and Moths. Golden Press, Western Press Company, Racine, WI, 1991.
  • Opler, Paul and Amy Bartlett Wright. Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994.
  • Pyle, Robert Michael. Field Guide to the Butterflies of Cascadia. Seattle Audubon, Seattle, WA, 2000.
  • Wright, Amy. Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1993.

Organizations

  • North American Butterfly Association, Inc. (NABA). 4 Delaware Road, Morristown, NJ 07960. www.naba.org
  • Seattle Audubon Society, 8050 35th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115. www.seattleaudubon.org

Websites


This urban wildlife publication was developed by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Wildlife Diversity Program and funded through the sale of personalized license plates. Text by: Russell Link, Artwork by: Jenifer Rees.


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