June 13, 2020

Common Garden Butterflies and Their Host Plants

Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plants
American Painted Lady Pearly Everlasting
American Snout Hackberry
Black Swallowtail Dill, Fennel, Carrot, Parsley
Cabbage Whites Mustards
Checkered Whites Mustards
Common Buckeye Snapdragons, Monkey Flowers
Eastern Comma Elm, Willow, Hackberry
Emperors Hackberry
Giant Swallowtail Lime, Lemon, Hoptree, Prickly Ash
Grass Skippers Little Bluestem, Panic Grass
Greater Fritillaries Violets
Gulf Fritillary Passion Vines
Heliconians Passion Vines
Monarch Butterfly Milkweeds
Mourning Cloak Willow, Birch
Painted Lady Thistles
Palamedes Swallowtail Red Bay
Pearl Crescent Asters
Pipevine Swallowtail Pipevines
Question Mark Elm, Willow, Hackberry
Red Admiral Nettles
Red Spotted Purple Cherry, Poplar, Birch
Silver-Spotted Skipper Black Locust, Indigo
Spicebush Swallowtail Spicebush, Sassafras
Sulphurs Clovers, Alfalfa
Tiger Swallowtail Black Cherry, Tulip Tree, Sweet Bay, Aspen, Ash
Viceroy Willow
Zebra Swallowtail Pawpaws
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