Achmon Blue Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Wild Buckwheat Family, Buckwheat

American Copper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Sorrel

American Painted Lady Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Aster Family, Cudweed, Cudweed, Licorice Icicles, Licorice Plant, Pearly Everlasting, Plantain-Leaved Pussy Toes, Sweet Everlasting

Anise Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Carrot Family, Parsley Family, Anise, Fennel, Parsnip

Atala Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Zamia Family

Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: English Plantain, Narrow-Leaved Plantain, Turtlehead, White Turtlehead

Banded And Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Poplar

Banded Purple Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Hawthorn

Black Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Carrot, Dill, Fennel, Parsley, Parsnip

Blues Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Clover Family

Bordered Patch Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Sunflower Family, Asteraceae, Golden Crownbeard , Zexmenia

Brazilian Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Arrowroot Family, Canna Family, Powdery Thalia

Buckeye Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Snapdragon Family, Plantain Family, Vervain Family, Blue Toadflax, Blue Vervain, Butter & Eggs, English Plantain, False Loosestrifes, Gerardias, Island Bush Snapdragon, Monkey Flower, Owl’s Clover, Plantains, Purple Toadflax, Ribgrass, Snapdragons, Thickleaf Wild Petunia, Toadflax, Twinflower, Wild Foxglove, Wild Petunia

Cabbage White Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mustard Family, Cabbage, Nasturtium

California Dogface Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family, False Indigo

California Sister Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Oak Family

California Tortoiseshell Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Buckthorn Family

Canadian Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Quaking Aspen

Cassius Blue Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Leadwort Family, Leadwort, Wild Plumbago

Checkered Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mallow Family, Cheeseweed

Clouded (Common) Sulphur Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: White Or Red Clover

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Candlestick Plant, Partridge Pea, Wild Senna

Comma Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Willow

Common Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mallow Family, Cheeseweed, Hollyhock, Rose, Marsh Mallow

Common Snout Butterfly Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Hackberry

Common White Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mustard Family

Coppers Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Dock

Coral Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Wild Cherry

Dainty Sulphur Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Aster Family, Spanish Needles

Dogface Butterfly Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Lead Plant, False Indigo, Prairie Clover

Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Rue Family, Carrot Family, Dill, Fennel, Golden Alexander, Parsley, Rue

Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Clovers, Crown Vetch

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Rose Family, Magnolia Family, Olive Family, Arizona Ash Tree, Tulip Poplar, Wafer Ash, Hoptree, Wild Black Cherry

Echo Blue (aka Spring Azure or Summer Azure) Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Buckthorn Family, California Buckeye, California Lilac

Fiery Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Grass Family, Bermuda Grass

Fritillary Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Violet

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Citrus Family, Hercules Club, Hop Tree, Orange Jasmine, Prickly Ash, Rue, Various Citrus, Wafer Ash, Wild Lime

Goatweed Leafwing Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Croton Family, Goatweed

Grass Nymph Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Grasses

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Hawthorn, Mallow Family, Malvaceae, Alfalfa, Beggarweed, Broomweed, Hawthorn, Swamp Hibiscus/Texas Star, Swamp Rose Mallow, White Clover

Great Purple (or Blue) Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mistletoe Family

Great Southern White Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mustard Family, Nasturtium Family, Saltwort Family

Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Pansy, Violet

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Passionvine Family, Maypop, Corky Stemmed Passionvine, Yellow Passionflower, Waterloo Blue, Blue Passionflower, Incense Passionflower, Passionflower, Twin Flower Passionflower, Amethyst, Lavender Lady, Star of Mikan

Hackberry Emperor Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Elm Family, Hackberry Family, Hackberry, Sugarberry

Harvester (The only carnivorous butterfly in the US.) Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Larva feed on other insects., Neoprociphilus, Pemphigus, Prociphilus, Schizoneura

Hoary Edge Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family, Desert False Indigo

Hop Merchant (Or Comma) Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Nettle

Julia Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Passionvine Family, Corky Stemmed Passionvine, Maypop, Yellow Passionflower

Juniper Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Eastern Redcedar

Long-Tailed Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family

Lorquin’s Admiral Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Willow Family

Malachite Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Acanthus Family

Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Milkweed Family, Balloon Plant, Balloon Plant, Crown Flower, Giant Milkweek, Honeyvine, Narrow-Leaf Milkweed, Scarlet Milkweed, Showy Milkweed, Swamp Milkweed, Tropical Milkweed

Mourning Cloak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Cottonwood Family, Elm Family, Willow Family, Corkscrew Willow, Poplar

Orange (Alfalfa) Sulphur Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family

Orange-Barred Sulphur Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Sicklepod, Christmas Senna, Glaucous Cassia, Bahama Senna, Privet Senna, Apple Blossom Cassia, Pink Cassia, Partridge Pea, Candlestick Cassia, Candlebush

Painted Lady Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Aster Family, Borage, Cheeseweed, High Mallow, Sunflower, Thistle, Tree Mallow

Palamedes Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Laurel Family, Redbay, Sassafras, Swampbay

Pale Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Buckthorn Family, California Lilac, Coffeeberry

Phaon Crescentspot Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Vervain Family, Fogfruit, Silvery Checkerspot, Black-Eyed Susan, Blazing Star, Gayfeather, Pale Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Tennessee Coneflower

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Pipevine Family, Big Leaf Pipevine, Birthwort, California Pipevine, Dutchman’s Pipe, Virginia Snakeroot, White-Veined Duchman’s Pipe, Woolly Pipevine. (Only use these pipevine; others are toxic to pipevine swallowtail caterpillars.)

Polydamas Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Pipevine Family, Calico Flower, Giant Pipevine

Queen Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Milkweed Family, Scarlet Milkweed, Tropical Milkweed, Whitevine

Question Mark Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Elm Family, Nettle Family, Hops Vine

Red Admiral Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Nettle Family, False Nettle, Stinging Nettle

Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Poplar Family, Rose Family, Willow Family, Black Willow, Carolina Willow, Purple Leaf Plum, Southern Crabapple, Wild Black Cherry, Wild Crabapple

Ruddy Daggerwing Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Fig Family, Australian Banyan, Florida Strangler Fig, Weeping Fig, Wild Banyan

Sara Orangetip Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mustard Family

Satyrs Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Grasses

Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family, Black Locust, Desert False Indigo

Skippers, Skippers (Hesperoidea, Hesperidae), Blazing Star Skipper Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Grasses

Sleepy Orange Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Senna, Cassia

Snout Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Hackberry

Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Laurel Family, Camphor Tree, Redbay, Sassafras, Spicebush, Swampbay

Sulphurs Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Bean Family, Clover Family

Sylvan Hairstreak Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Willow

Tawny Emperor Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Hackberry

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Black Cherry, Magnolia, Tulip Tree, Wafer Ash

Tortoise Shell Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Nettle, Willow

Two-Tailed Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Cherry Family, Ash Family, Citrus Family, California Hoptree, Chokecherry, Common Hoptree

Variegated Fritillary Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Passionvine Family, Violet Family, Common Violet, Johnny Jump-Ups, Maypop, Woolly Blue Violet

Viceroy And Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Black Willow, Carolina Willow, Cherries, Goat Willow, Plums, Poplars, Pussy Willow, Willows

West Coast Lady Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mallow Family, Cheeseweed, Common Hollyhock, Common Mallow, Tree Mallow

Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Willow Family, Poplar, Willow

White Admiral Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Birch Family, Poplar Family, Willow Family, Poplar, Wild Black Cherry, Willow

White Peacock Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Snapdragon Family, Vervain Family, Herb of Grace, Lemon Bacopa, Water Hyssop

Whites Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Mustard Family

Zebra Longwing Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Lady Margaret, Passionvine Family, Corky Stemmed Passionvine, Maypops, Purple Passionflower, Two-Flower Passionvine, Yellow Passionvine

Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar Host Plant: Pawpaw Family, Common Pawpaw, Dwarf Pawpaw, Soursop

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