A Mouse Chewed Through the Butterfly House!

When writing these posts, it seems they end being about the backyard birding products I either use and/or sell on the site.  I’m not sure why, because I can write about anything that suits me. So here’s a post on mouse who made my butterfly house his home…and it’s true too!

Living in the Atlanta, Georgia area for the past 25 years, 7 of them were spent in Peachtree City. It’s a really unique place, where the city is connected by golf cart paths, and most intersections have 4-way stops instead of traffic lights. There are special covenants for businesses, and no neon signs…imagine that? One common denominator of each home I ever lived in, was that wildlife habitat was always created, nurtured, and cared for everyday. It was, and still is part of my being.

Someone had given me a butterfly house because I thought they were cool and summer brought many of theses fabulous, flying flowers to my gardens. Placing the house on the ground was not the best idea, over time it started to rot at the bottom. While picking it up for inspection and probable removal one day, there was a tiny deer mouse inside. I guess he liked the environment and felt comfortable in his little house, he didn’t know it was supposed to be for butterflies!  Needless to say, the house likely never saw any butterflies, but did provide habitat for other critters!