When you are looking for butterflies, remember that they can be found in a number of different places. Sometimes they are attracted to particular plants - like buddleias, which are sometimes called butterfly bushes - but they tend to look out for places that best suit their needs. You would not expect to find the same butterflies at, say, Hopes Nose in Torbay, that you would find on the moor. Different plants attract different butterlies so bear that in mind if you want to look out for some stunning photographs of different species.
								Making the farm is simple enough - the picture may help but the process is essentially very easy - but it also has the added advantage of protecting the developing caterpillars from birds. This will ensure that more butterflies survive this stage of their lives and will help to increase the butterfly population. Just don't forget to make arrangements for the butterflies to pupate. Other ways in which you can help include leaving a small part of your garden as a natural wildlife area. Fence it off if you want but some plants that we don't particularly like - take stinging nettles for example - are often food plants for some of our more beautiful butterflies, like peacocks. This small area may do a lot more good than you might suppose. It will also have the added advantage of encouraging moths to enter the garden. We may not see as much of these as we do butterflies but they are also subject to the same problems that butterflies are encountering. Death's head hawk moths, for example, used to visit Britain in their millions but now only a handful are left. The reason? The caterpillars ate the leaves of potato plants so farmers treated the plants with pesticides and nearly wiped the moth out. Now, decades later, the stocks have still not recovered.