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The Butterfly Garden is a potpourri of many varieties of flowering plants that attract and support beneficial insects. These plants provide a food source for the insects that will hopefully move into other areas of the garden either to eat pests or lay their eggs on plants. The eggs will then hatch and the larvae will eat insect pests such as thrips or aphids. The use of insectaries for pest control reduces or eliminates reliance on chemical pesticides.
 Aside from pest control, another benefit of an insectary is that butterflies are attracted to these same plants as a food source, hence the term "Butterfly Garden". Milkweed plants (Asclepias curassivica) serve as host plants for Monarch butterflies, which lay their eggs only on this species.
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