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Grasses | Warm Season
Grasses Prairie
Restoration | Old Fields | Grass
Planting | Prescribed
Burning Meadows | Grassland
Birds | Upland
Grasslands Butterflies | Wildflowers |
Grain Plots What is a Butterfly | Butterfly Behavior | Butterfly Garden Plants | Butterfly Food Plants Index of Butterflies &
Moths
Butterfly & Catepillar Food Plants
Some common butterflies and
their caterpillar food plants.
Butterfly Species |
Caterpillar Food Plant |
Swallowtail
Family (Papilionidae) |
Black Swallowtail |
Parsley family - both wild and
cultivated: carrot, dill, parsley, and parsnip |
Spicebush Swallowtail |
Spicebush, sassafras |
Tiger Swallowtail |
Aspen, cherry, birch |
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Snout
Butterfly (Libytheidae) |
Common Snout Butterfly |
Hackberry |
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Brush-footed
Family (Nymphalidae) |
Great Spangled and Idalia
Fritillary |
Violets |
Buckeye |
Plantains, gerardias, toadflax,
snapdragons, false loosestrifes |
Painted Lady |
Thistles |
Red Admiral |
Nettles, false nettle |
Viceroy and Red-Spotted Purple |
Willows, especially black willow,
pussy willow, poplars, plums, cherries |
Hackberry Butterfly |
Hackberry |
Monarch Butterfly |
Milkweeds, butterfly weed |
Mourning Cloak |
Willow, birch, aspen, maple,
elm |
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Sulphur Family
(Pieridae) |
Common (clouded) Sulphur |
Clover, alfalfa |
Dogface Butterfly |
Lead plant, false indigo, prairie
clover |
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Coppers,
Blues, Harvesters, Metalmarks Families (Lycaenidae,
Riodinidae) |
American Copper |
Sorrel |
Sylvan Hairstreak |
Willow |
Common Hairstreak |
Mallow family, rose & marsh
mallows, hollyhock |
Gray Hairstreak |
Hawthorn |
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Skipper Family
(Hesperidae) |
Blazing Star Skipper |
Grasses |
These
nineteenth century woodcuts illustrate portions of the life cycles
of butterflies and moths.
 In the
left illustration, “A” is an adult butterfly nectar feeding.
“B” shows females ovipositing (egg-laying). “C” represents
several instars, or stages, of larval feeding and growth. “D”
is the pupa (chrysalis of a butterfly). “E” is a newly emerged
butterfly adult drying its wings. |
 In the
bottom illustration, of moths, “A” is an adult resting with
its wings folded. “B” and “C” represent two larval instars.
“D” is the hairy cocoon of the
moth. |
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