Butterfly Host Plants

Female butterflies will lay their eggs on certain plants, these plants are called "host plants". So many butterflies so many different host plants. For example: Zebra Longwing will lay eggs on passion vines, while Queens will lay eggs on milkweeds.  After some time baby caterpillar will hatch from egg and will start eating its host plant, some time they'll eat it down to nothing. But do not worry, most plants will grow back fast.

Bacopa   Corkystem Passionvine Maypop Passionvine Coontie Carpetweed    Red bay  Wild lime 
Milkweed * Sweet bay magnolia Loblolly bay

 

 Water hemlock Bahama cassia -

 

 Water hemlock

 

    Dutchmen's pipe*

 

 Wild tamarind

 
Wax myrtle

 

 Live oak

 

 Soapberry

 

 Winged elm

 

 Hackberry

 

 Thatch palm

 

 Native Petunia  

 

 

Zebra Longwing, Heliconius charitonia, laying eggs on

corkystem passionvine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sulfur butterfly egg on Bahama Cassia leaf.