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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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