Butterfly Checklist:
Caterpillar Checklist:
(If you want the butterflies to come, you can’t forget the caterpillars!)
Butterflies & Caterpillars | Host and Food Plants |
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Eastern tiger swallowtail | Wild Cherry and tulip tree |
Monarch | Milkweed and dogbane |
White admiral | Birch, willow, and poplar trees |
Viceroy | Willow and poplar trees |
Great spangled fritillary | Larva feeds at night on violets. Butterflies like milkweed and thistle |
Common blue | Larva feeds on dogwood flowers |
Painted lady | Larva feeds on thistle. Butterflies frequent thistles |
Tawny emperor | Hackberry tree |
Hackberry butterfly | Hackberry tree |
Clouded sulphurs | Larva eats red clover. The buttery yellow color of the European sulphurs probably suggested the name butterfly. |
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