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The Buerfly Garden The Buerfly Garden GORTON HERITAGE TRAIL The Gore Brook Valley Conservaon Area This area has been created from waste land as a small sanctuary for Buerflies, and planted with plants that they like: Buddleja, Verbena, Sedum, Valerian, Asters, Coreopsis The stones have been set for the buerflies to sunbathe as the stones become warm in the sunshine Like many animals today buerflies are threatened by a loss of wild habitat, polluon and climate change The world would be a sadder, emper place without the beauty of buerflies – which is why we have created this Buerfly Garden Buerflies mainly appear in summer aracted by the buercups and flowers of meadows which provide them with the nectar on which they live There are 59 species of buerfly which breed in Britain though there are many thousand worldwide Buerflies are insects with large colourful wings that are made up of thousands of minute les which can appear like dust when touched Buerflies may look delicate but they can fly thousands of miles. The Painted Lady flies from North Africa to Britain and back every year – about 5,000 miles The Life Cycle of a Buerfly is in 4 stages: 1. The adult buerfly lays eggs on plant leaves which will provide food for the larvae 2. The eggs hatch into larvae or caterpillars which grow very rapidly spending most of their me eang 3. When they have become fully grown the caterpillar stops eang and hangs under a leaf where it hardens into a chrysalis 4. In me the chrysalis splits open and a buerfly crawls out. As soon as its wings have expanded and dried it flies off Buerflies and moths are closely related. Buerflies evolved from moths about 60 million years ago The difference between moths and buerflies is that buerflies are more colourful and acve during the day and tend to fold their wings upright whilst moths favour the dark, are duller and fold their wings flat on their back Please scan the QR code below to view our Buerfly ID Guide, for the species you may find here in our Garden: www.gortonheritagetrail.co.uk www.gortonheritagetrail.co.uk
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The Butterfly GardenThe Butterfly Garden
GORTON HERITAGE TRAIL The Gore Brook Valley Conservation Area
This area has been created from waste land as
a small sanctuary for Butterflies, and planted
with plants that they like:
Buddleja, Verbena, Sedum, Valerian, Asters,
Coreopsis
The stones have been set for the butterflies to
sunbathe as the stones become warm in the
sunshine
Like many animals today butterflies are
threatened by a loss of wild habitat, pollution and climate change
The world would be a sadder, emptier place without the beauty of butterflies – which is why
we have created this Butterfly Garden
Butterflies mainly appear in summer attracted by the buttercups and flowers of meadows which
provide them with the nectar on which they live
There are 59 species of butterfly which breed in Britain though there are many thousand
worldwide
Butterflies are insects with large colourful wings that are made up of thousands of minute tiles
which can appear like dust when touched
Butterflies may look delicate but they can fly thousands of miles. The Painted Lady flies from
North Africa to Britain and back every year – about 5,000 miles
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly is in 4 stages:
1. The adult butterfly lays eggs on plant leaves which will provide food for the larvae
2. The eggs hatch into larvae or caterpillars which grow very rapidly spending most of their time eating
3. When they have become fully grown the caterpillar stops eating and hangs under a leaf where it hardens into a chrysalis
4. In time the chrysalis splits open and a butterfly crawls out. As soon as its wings have expanded and dried it flies off
Butterflies and moths are closely related.
Butterflies evolved from moths about 60 million years ago
The difference between moths and butterflies is that butterflies are more colourful and active
during the day and tend to fold their wings
upright whilst moths favour the dark, are duller and fold their wings flat on their back
Please scan the QR code below to view our Butterfly ID Guide, for the species you may find
here in our Garden:
www.gortonheritagetrail.co.ukwww.gortonheritagetrail.co.uk
