Making a Puddle Patch
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- What is a Puddle Patch?
When thinking about how to attract wildlife to your garden, a great place to start planning is with butterflies. Butterflies are attracted to many different nectar and host plants that you can put in your garden, but another way to provide for butterflies is by giving them opportunities to puddle.
So what is puddling?
Puddling is a behaviour most used in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud, dung, and sand.
Typically, puddling behavior takes place on wet soil. Ever have a butterfly land on you & start using his Proboscis? If so, it was puddling. Puddling behaviour is more commonly seen in males. Males puddle with a much higher frequency than females. Because they need more of these minerals in order to mate and not be sterile.
The males of some species will congregate at shallow puddles or damp mud, sipping water to obtain minerals such as salt, which is thought to be important for successful reproduction.
You can create a simple "mineral spa" in your own backyard by mixing equal parts of sand, soil, or gravel (I used Decomposed Granite) and adding it the catchment of your choice. You don’t even have to have a catchment & can do it right in the garden on the ground. In this video, I used an old birdbath since the base broke. Great way to repurpose things within the garden. Don’t forget to moisten your Puddle Patch. As the water evaporates, it leaves behind valuable salts and minerals that butterflies need. Once butterflies know where to find these minerals, they'll return regularly. Adding stale beer, salt, manure, or rotting fruit to this area will make it even more attractive to butterflies for sure. So until next time, Peace, Love, and Butterflies. ✌🏼💝🦋🦋
I love your dog helper.
Thank you for sharing this video, it's exactly what I was looking for! I know what I'm doing this weekend! 😁
I love your sweet cheerful voice! Thank you for the great info
I came here to say let your doggy come! Thanks for the video!
I'm going to make one. I am very excited. Thank you. I didn't know that there was such a thing as a butterfly puddle.
Maybe I don't have many butterflies in my area. I've planted flowers and bushes to attract butterflies and hummingbirds and I made the butterfly puddle. I have not seen any. My son said he has seen a monarch and one or two others.
I have plenty of birds to feed. I'm going to keep the puddle out and keep waiting for butterflies. Do you have a suggestion? I also had the fruit on it but I removed it because it attracted many gnats.
My bird bath will now include two other features, your butterfly bath post and this puddle patch.
And in case no other viewer noticed or mentioned this, your attractiveness does justice to the topic of the beautiful and beneficial sanctuaries that these posts provide. Thank you.
Hello Drake, I'm starting a Puddle Patch at home! Thank you for the information :-) Sandi
🦋Thanks for sharing this video❣️🌹🌷💐🌾🍀🦋🦋🐞🦋🦋
I enjoyed that very much. Thanks for posting.
Great video! And there isn't any problem with the dog visiting either :)
Nice
I love all you videos! Inspiration for me to be creative...I want to make a puddle patch with my granddaughter. I was wondering if you could make your volume louder. I have the volume up all the way but still have trouble hearing you and imagine others might as well. Thanks again for your posts.
I’m absolutely making one of these!
I have some Azomite trace mineral powder and basalt gravel laying around as garden amendments, so I’ll throw that into my mix
I live your idea!!! However, I have my volume up as high as I can, but can't hear you!
The dog is cute! You do not need to exclude her
Great video !! Do you need to change out the sand during the season or just refresh with the epsom salt ??
You can just refresh by spraying with water (or adding Epsom salt). When the water dries, the minerals in it are left behind.
That's great! Thanks for all the tips. Please, don't lock your dog. Let her come :)
This is great, Drake. How about if you don't have the crushed stone to put some limestone rocks. I have lots of them.
Donna, that would definatly work.
u didn't mix it up that good maybe next time u might want to use a small tub but love all u have done thanks a lot
Could I use a terracotta deep dish that was previously a cactus planter?
Yes, absolutely you can.
How do you keep it from being flooded and washed away when it rains....Do you bring it inside?
geeker211 you could cover it if you know it’s going to rain. Where I place mine in the garden, it’s sheltered by the plants. So it doesn’t catch much direct rainfall. ✌🏼💝🦋🦋
Why Epsom salts? Where I live our river doesn't provide salt, when I see the butterflies drinking from the sand. I like the idea though. TFS
I think most of the salt in wild mud puddles comes from animal urine. Photographers pee in it to attract butterflies! I guess adding salt is a little more 'civilized' >.>
What, no 5-gallon buckets for mixing where you live ? Geez.
Thanks, Drake. I might have missed it, but where do I place the puddle for the most attraction of butterflies?
Alan, place it in the garden, in an area that you won’t move it at all. They will learn this is a reliable area to collect from if it is not moved around.
Thanks Drake, and thanks for your service.
Like , very good video. Done + bell on. Thanks
Don’t want this to sound rude but……I watching intently until the comment about “keeping the dog inside next time” Sorry, nothing wrong with a pup being curious and involved
It was a joke, the dog was not actually coming over to help make the puddle patch
No, No, Keep your dog in your videos! "D-O-G is G-O-D spelled backwards!" Angels in soft, furry bodies. And you are an Angel-Fly in a human costume. I love your knowledge and dedication.I am a "New-Butt" to all of this, as well as subscriber #71 to your channel. I hope you get some sponsors for your channel to link to the products that you recommend. I will buy them based upon your expertise.
Aweee, thank you!! She is my sweet baby girl. Love her to death!
Bee watering stations
Lisa Gray, we’ve made one of those too. Look through our list of videos.✌🏼💝🦋🦋
Geez I hate Auto-Correct! I just now noticed that I declared myself "...a "New-Butt" to all of this,.." When I know that I tapped out "New-BEE"!!! D@mm Fire Tablet!
What minerals are they seeking? I.e., would something like amomite or kelp meal be helpful?
Kirsten, they are seeking mainly salts, but I have personally seen butterflies on kelp at the beach. So not sure if it was for the kelp, or the salt from the ocean. I do know they mainly need salts. this is why you add water to dampen the area, as it dries, the minerals are left behind.
@@thenectarbar6461 that's so beautiful