Attract Butterflies to Your Garden With This Vibrant Glass Feeder — It Comes With a Nectar Recipe Too

Published July 14 2025, 9:45 a.m. ET

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(L) Hand-blown glass butterfly feeder crafted by an American glass artist. (Cover Image Source: Garden Artisans) | (R) Boy holding a butterfly on a flower.

Metamorphosis is beautiful. And inviting butterflies into your garden is like punctuating your morning with this inspiring reminder. If you could observe them closer, zooming in from the lens of a scientist, you’d realize that their life is way richer than you could ever imagine. From the gooey cocoon of a caterpillar to a pair of majestic wings, a butterfly’s life cycle could be considered one of the greatest science fiction stories ever. Garden Artisans rolled out its Blown Glass Butterfly Feeder that lets you watch this nature science show for just $82.50.

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These colorful insects travel in long-distance flights to reach flowering beds where they scamper from flower to flower, seeking sweet, sugary nectar. Males perch over puddles to sip the salt-rich urine of meat-eating organisms. While the water they drink is soon excreted, the salts their bodies retain are then transferred to the body of the female along with a pack of sperm. Once these materials are deposited inside the female’s abdomen, she lays her egg on the underside of leaves, per HowStuffWorks.

One of the highlighting features of this feeder is its gleaming glass. The vivid, bright colors of this glass feeder are designed in a way that they will lure the butter-stealing insects to think that they are looking at a bounteous nectar supply. Handcrafted by American glass artist Andrew Holmberg, the feeder is built like a crinkly petal cup of a flower, another element that butterflies will be attracted to.

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