Online Class: Butterfly Gardens

A butterfly garden requires not only routine grounds maintenance, but also considerations for providing butterflies with a variety of housing options, feeders, and protection against pests and predators.

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  • 10
    Lessons
  • 19
    Exams &
    Assignments
  • 3
    Hours
    average time
  • 0.3
    CEUs
 
 

Course Description

Welcome to our course on butterfly gardens. Butterflies are beautiful and delightful members of the insect family, not only fun to watch, but also to raise. For those interested in observing and enjoying numerous butterfly species, there's no better way to attract them than to create a butterfly garden. Throughout this course, students will learn how to attract butterflies based on their species and focusing on planting the types of flowers they prefer. Creating butterfly-friendly habitats means designing an eco-friendly butterfly garden that provides butterflies with adequate sources of food, sunlight, and shelter.

When considering a butterfly garden, students will also learn different approaches to raising butterflies and how to care for them at all stages of development. A variety of feeding methods will be explored, as will the importance of choosing the right kind of plants and flowers that produce life-giving nectar. In addition, students will learn how to watch for and identify a variety of butterfly behaviors including feeding, basking, and mating.

A butterfly garden requires not only routine grounds maintenance, but also considerations for providing butterflies with a variety of housing options, feeders, and protection against pests and predators. While butterflies are perfectly capable of surviving in a wild environment, it never hurts to provide them with a backup, and we'll offer several easy and inexpensive ways to provide shelter, food, and water for your butterflies.

Students are encouraged to use their own imagination when creating a butterfly garden, but we'll also provide a brief description of some of the most popular butterfly gardens and exhibits in the United States to get you started. This course on butterfly gardens concludes with the basics of raising taxa-specific butterflies, including some of the most popular species found throughout the United States.

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  • 6 Months to Complete
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Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider
 

Course Lessons

Lesson 1: Creating a Butterfly Garden - The Basics

Butterfly gardens create a unique environment for local butterfly species, and can bring hours of enjoyment to butterfly enthusiasts 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 1 Video
  • Lesson discussions: Reasons for Taking this Course
  • Complete: Lesson 1 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 1: Creating a Butterfly Garden - The Basics Exam

Lesson 2: Attracting Butterflies

In this lesson, we'll explain how to attract butterflies from your region, and give you an idea of the types of plants and flowers that attract specific types of butterflies. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 2 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 2: Attracting Butterflies Exam

Lesson 3: Designing a Butterfly Garden

In this lesson, we'll introduce students to the basics of designing a butterfly garden. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 3 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 3 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 3: Designing a Butterfly Garden Exam

Lesson 4: Approaches to Butterfly Raising

Raising butterflies from an egg to caterpillar to butterfly is an excellent way to also release adult butterflies back into the wild, which benefits their continued presence in our environments. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 4 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 4 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 4: Approaches to Butterfly Raising Exam

Lesson 5: Caring for Butterfly Immatures

In this lesson, we'll focus more deeply on caring for "immatures", more commonly known as butterfly eggs, larva, to chrysalis, before the butterfly emerges as an adult. 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 5 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 5: Caring for Butterfly Immatures Exam

Lesson 6: Feeding Methods

In this lesson, we'll focus on several specific feeding methods and approaches to ensure that your butterfly eggs, larva or caterpillars and adults get everything they need within the environment you have provided for them. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 6 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 6 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 6: Feeding Methods Exam

Lesson 7: Butterfly Behaviors

In this lesson, we'll discuss a few interesting butterfly behaviors that you can watch for after you've created your butterfly garden. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 7 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 7 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 7: Butterfly Behaviors Exam

Lesson 8: Butterfly Garden Maintenance

We'll talk about maintaining your butterfly garden in this lesson, as well as a variety of housing options you can provide for your butterflies. Additional lesson topics: Butterfly Garden Design Tips 10 Total Points
  • Lesson 8 Video
  • Assessment: Lesson 8: Butterfly Garden Maintenance Exam

Lesson 9: Butterfly Gardens and Exhibits in the U.S.

In this lesson, we'll briefly profile some of the most popular and visited butterfly exhibits and gardens in the U.S. 11 Total Points
  • Lesson 9 Video
  • Complete: Lesson 9 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 9: Butterfly Gardens and Exhibits in the U.S.Exam

Lesson 10: Raising Taxa-Specific Butterflies

In this final lesson regarding butterfly gardens, we encourage students to try their hand at raising taxa-specific or species-specific butterflies. 41 Total Points
  • Lesson 10 Video
  • Lesson discussions: What do you think about this course?; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course); Course Comments
  • Complete: Lesson 10 Assignment
  • Assessment: Lesson 10: Raising Taxa-Specific Butterflies Exam
  • Assessment: The Final Exam
138
Total Course Points
 

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Describe creating a butterfly garden - the basics.
  • Describe ways to attract butterflies.
  • Summarize designing a butterfly garden and approaches to raising butterflies.
  • Describe caring for butterfly immatures and feed methods.
  • Summarize butterfly behaviors.
  • Describe butterfly garden maintenance.
  • Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
 

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Course Title: Butterfly Gardens
Course Number: 8900205
Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries
Availability: This course is online and available in all 50 states including: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, and Washington.
Last Updated: November 2023
Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Class
CEU Value: 0.3 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)
CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.
Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams
Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars

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