Butterfly Gardens of Central Park

Butterfly Gardens of Central Park The north end of Central Park is home to four colorful butterfly gardens. Located near the North Meadow ballfields by 102nd St.

and the Central Park loop and are maintained by volunteers. Follow us on Instagram The four North Meadow Butterfly Gardens in Central Park, at the 102nd Street ballfields, were established in the year 2000 by local resident Richard Stadin, with the support of the Central Park Conservancy, as colorful and attractive locations in which local native butterflies could n

ectar. Butterfly gardens are collections of the flowering plants and shrubs and caterpillar host plants that are essential the lifecycles of butterflies. The gardens are also helpful to some moths and hummingbirds. Butterflies, like many other animal species, can have a hard time when their natural habitat is segmented, diminished, or destroyed. The problems are even greater in cities, where there is even less open, unpaved area. Butterfly gardens provide flowering plants all spring and summer, when caterpillars feed and butterflies are on the wing. A side benefit is that other pollinators, also troubled by habitat destruction and other pressures, often feed at the same flowers the butterflies do, and thus help distribute pollen to other plants. It may be called a butterfly garden, but rest assured that you will find bees and other pollinators there, too. Butterfly gardens are not only important for ecological reasons. They are also colorful, beautiful, and they smell good. To this day they are maintained by volunteer gardeners who visit regularly to water and w**d the gardens.

A beautiful Blue Dasher dragonfly (also known as a Pachydiplax longipennis 😳😄) spotted on one of the garden’s Buddleia b...
08/20/2020

A beautiful Blue Dasher dragonfly (also known as a Pachydiplax longipennis 😳😄) spotted on one of the garden’s Buddleia bushes

Our Butterfly Garden volunteers are back at at it! 👏👏👏 Check out the before and afters! They cleared out a ton last week...
08/20/2020

Our Butterfly Garden volunteers are back at at it! 👏👏👏 Check out the before and afters! They cleared out a ton last week, working through the pouring rain, and again this week, under lots of sunshine, luckily! Thank you, Hunter and Tatiana, for working hard to get the gardens back in shape before the season ends for all to enjoy! 🦋🐛🌸🌼🌺🌿🌻 @ Butterfly Gardens of Central Park

We need a little water and a lot of w**ding but we are strong and ready to feed butterflies. @ Central Park
06/29/2020

We need a little water and a lot of w**ding but we are strong and ready to feed butterflies. @ Central Park

06/03/2020

Our beautiful butterfly garden going wild without volunteer parenting! Hope they let volunteers back in soon before we lose control and the w**ds and grass takeover.

Team work! Passage way coming!
05/23/2020

Team work! Passage way coming!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have signed a historic agreement that allows participant landholders to dedicate a percentage of their lands to monarch conservation management in exchange for regulatory flexibility on the rest of their enrol...

Spring has sprung at the butterfly gardens. Unfortunately the gardens are growing wild due to volunteer restrictions fro...
05/08/2020

Spring has sprung at the butterfly gardens. Unfortunately the gardens are growing wild due to volunteer restrictions from coronavirus.

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10/02/2019

Still just as many butterflies today at the Central Park Butterfly Gardens! Come see us before these beauties migrate to Mexico! 🦋🌸🌼

Over 100 butterflies today....so amazing! More pics and videos to come!
10/02/2019

Over 100 butterflies today....so amazing! More pics and videos to come!

Soooo many Butterflies this weekend! Saturday we counted 20!! 🦋 @ Butterfly Gardens of Central Park
09/29/2019

Soooo many Butterflies this weekend! Saturday we counted 20!! 🦋 @ Butterfly Gardens of Central Park

09/29/2019

In flight 🦋

There are so many Praying Mantis in the Butterfly Gardens this year, which is not good, because they pray on Monarch but...
09/28/2019

There are so many Praying Mantis in the Butterfly Gardens this year, which is not good, because they pray on Monarch butterflies. One of our volunteers gently removed and relocated 5 of them to another part of the park today. The last photo shows a Praying Mantis egg sack on one of the Buddleia bushes, and it contains hundreds of eggs. We will be removing the stalk and relocating the sack too! 😳 @ Butterfly Gardens of Central Park

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102nd Street And Central Park East
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