![]() Zebra Swallowtail lurking there Zebra Longwing Butterfly. They like low growing wildflowers for their nectar sources. They are commonly seen in flight as they search for host plants in which to lay eggs. Canada toadflax (Linaria canadensis) comes up in various places on my property and if I don’t mow it until the summer I can always find buckeyes in abundance. Spermolepis divaricata (roughfruit scaleseed)Ī medium sized butterfly with blue and black eyespots with an orange border. Sanicula canadensis (Canadian blacksnakeroot) Ptilimnium capillaceum (mock Bishop’s weed) ![]() Lilaeopsis carolinensis (Carolina grasswort) If you start growing some of the native perennials they use as host plants you won’t have to keep going to the big box store to buy more dill to feed the caterpillars!Ī black swallowtail’s native host plants are in the ApiaceaeĬhaerophyllum tainturieri (hairyfruit chervil)Ĭryptotaenia canadensis (Canadian honewort)Įryngium yuccifolium (button rattlesnakemaster) Orthosia scoparia (leafless swallow-wort)Ī dark swallowtail that loves the herb garden because it uses dill & fennel as host plants. Matelea floridana (Florida milkvine) ✤ 20 Pre-treated Seeds The plants in this family that occur naturally in central Florida are:Īsclepias amplexicaulis (clasping milkweed)Īsclepias connivens (large flower milkweed)Īsclepias humistrata (pinewoods milkweed)Īsclepias lanceolata (few-flower milkweed)Īsclepias longifolia (long-leaf milkweed)Īsclepias pedicellata (savannah milkweed)Īsclepias tomentosa (velvet-leaf milkweed)Īsclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)Ĭynanchum northropiae (fragrant swallow-wort) The butterfly does not help pollinate the pawpaw blossoms that task falls to carrion beetles and flies who are attracted to the putrid fragrance. The relationship between the pawpaw tree and the zebra swallowtail is one-sided. Locate plants in as many areas as possible in order to spread out their food source and have enough to provide for hungry caterpillars.Ī monarch’s native host plants are in the Apocynaceae The mature zebra swallowtail butterflies typically don’t venture too far from a pawpaw tree. Egg: Greenish globes are laid singly on various parts of the pawpaw. If you plant milkweed, their host plants, the females will lay their eggs on it, and devour it so plant as much as you can. Zebra Swallowtail Eurytides marcellus Butterfly: Wingspan: 2 - 3 inches (6.0 - 8.9 cm). Monarch butterflies are beautiful, majestic, flyers.
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