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Decoy Butterfly for Garden Pest Control

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What it does

  • Deters cabbage white butterflies from laying eggs on your crops
  • Oversized design looks more intimidating to egg-laying females
  • Simple, effective natural pest control for veggie gardens
  • Easy to mount on stakes or hang around your garden beds

Meet the Decoy Butterfly, a clever piece of 3D printed outdoor gear that helps protect your garden from cabbage white butterflies. These little pests love to lay eggs on brassicas, but they're surprisingly antisocial about it. When they see another butterfly already claimed the territory, they'll move along to someone else's kale.

This decoy is intentionally oversized to look extra intimidating to egg-laying females. Just position a few around your garden beds and let nature's territorial instincts do the work. It's a simple, chemical-free way to protect your crops.

Fair warning: you might catch a few confused male butterflies trying to woo your decoys. Don't worry, males don't lay eggs, so they're harmless. Just let them figure it out on their own.

1.7k downloads in the maker community. That is interest in the design on the site it came from, not our sales.

What you get

  • This design prints as one piece.
  • Nothing else to print or buy for this to work.

What it is made of

Designs like this print well in PLA. Compare the materials.

Printed plastic is strong for its size, but it is not metal. We have not load tested this design, so we do not publish a weight rating. Keep it out of a hot car and away from open flame.

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Who made this design

Designed by vik. We did not draw it.

Shared under GNU GPL. See the original design