I've been thinking about getting a butterfly house. I wonder if they work

I saw 1 at Hardware Hank today for only $15. I didn't buy it, but I am thinking about it. Maybe some of you have suggestions for effective houses

The butterfly farm does not have any artificial homes.
Sooooo,,,,, now I am wondering were do they sleep?

Good question.

What a pretty design! I never knew such things existed

I would think wasps would love it.

If you really want to try one plan to put it out in the late fall and take it down late spring otherwise unwanted insect WILL use it in the summer. If it is open inside place a few chunks of rough bark in it to loosely fill. If any of the few species that hibernate in your area deem to use it they will squeeze between then for the winter. I had very limited use of the ones I put out and consider them a novelty and at the very bottom of the list of things to do to help butterflies. Flowers(or food not all butterflies eat nectar), water and Host plants top my list which are severely dwindling in our monoculture herbicide sprayed AG world.

The experts all say that butterfly houses don't work. I suspect, that if you packed them with a lot of wood, some caterpillars would build a chrysalis in them, like they do in wood piles and rock piles, which work better. Butterfly houses are basically just decorations like garden gnome houses.

Keith

I wounder the same. Seems like it would be full of mud daubers around here. Cool idea if it works