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Arico said:

You're welcome.

Many people like butterflies, but they don't like the stage that comes before them: caterpillars, because they eat their plants. If you truly care about butterflies to thrive into the future, you need to (ideally) cater (to some extent) to them too.

Adding to this (in case it wasn't mentioned before), swallowtails like to lay their eggs on parsley. While it doesn't look pretty (and dies after flowering it's second year), you can help start the next generation.