Flowers are the backbone of any butterfly garden, but non-living features can also play a huge role in helping to draw and provide for the butterflies and other pollinators you are trying to attract. One of the easiest and most effective of these is to provide a water source, or sources if you have the space. These can be simple tray style waterers or can be bare ground puddling spots. In this video learn how to create both types of water features in your garden, and best of all they are simple to create and usually free!

Hope you find the video useful. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Anthony

Thanks everyone who gave it a watch!

Another good one Anthony. Thanks.

Thanks K-zoo!

I frequently see honey bees sucking water out of dog poop.

Some days, we get hundreds of butterflies drinking the water that spills when we fill the 2 1/2 gallon jugs we use to carry water to our stock.

Keith

KeithC - Yep - honeybees will gather moisture and minerals from some strange places - butterflies too. If I need good pics of butterflies I just take a leak on our gravel driveway and wait a few minutes. Butterflies love urine.

Thank you. I plant flowers for the insects every year. Now I will include a water source.

3togo - glad you found it useful!

Very nice video, Anthony.

I have three birdbaths, all hand made with a gradual slope and traction, where the bees sit along the edge and get all the water they desire. No one slides in and drowns.

I had to chuckle when you held up the two flower pot bases, with that stoic expression on your face....you just struck me as funny

Sharon - thank you! I try to through some dry humor into the videos.

That's the kind of dry humor I like

Great videos.

Bucket we put under an upstairs window ac drip we water hanging g baskets and pla to by the porch with. Droning was a thing so I purchased the sticks in and it helps some. Gives them something to get out on when they fall in. Some still drown that's just life. Er have other. Waters sources like stock tanks and 14 mile creek 500 yards or less away. They do seem to like the ac water