What Do Butterflies Eat

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Anise Swallowtail columbine, Hall’s lomatium, leichtlin’s camas, New England Aster, lantana

Eastern Black Swallowtail  Milkweed, Phlox

Giant Swallowtail  lantana, orange

Pipevine Swallowtail__Azalea, Honeysuckle, Orchid, Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)

Spicebush Swallowtail    Joe-Pye Weed, Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Jewelweed, Lantana, honeysuckle, Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Bee Balm (Monarda), Butterfly Bush, Honeysuckle, Sunflower, Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)

Zebra Swallowtail Milkweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Red Clover, Zinnia, Cosmos sulphureus, Lantana,Pentas, daisy

Monarch Milkweed, New England Aster, Red Clover, Zinnia, Cosmos sulphureus, Lantana, Pentas, daisy, Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)

Viceroy Milkweed, New England Aster, Red Clover, Zinnia, Cosmos sulphureus, Lantana, Pentas, daisy, rotting fruit

Red-Spotted Purple rotting fruit, dung, small white flowers such as a white Buddleia

Great Spangled Fritillary Milkweed, New England Aster, Red Clover, Zinnia, Cosmos sulphureus, Lantana, Pentas, daisy

Variegated Fritillary meadow flowers, Hibiscus, composite family

Meadow Fritillary meadow flowers, composite family

Mourning Cloak rotting fruit, dung, meadow flowers

Question Mark rotting fruit, dung, meadow flowers

Green Comma dung, fruits, puddles

Red Admiral Cosmos sulphureus, fruit, Gaillardia

Painted Lady variety of garden and field plants

American Painted   lady Burdock, daisy, everlastings, Mallow, Malva sylvestris, Yarrow, Zinnia, Heliotrope

Buckeye Gaillardia, Lantana, Cosmos sulphureus, clovers

Baltimore Checkerspot Lobelia, Purple Coneflower, Gaillardia

Pearly Crescentspot Zinnia, daisies, clovers, Goldenrod

Great Purple Hairstreak daisy, Purple Coneflower, clovers

Gray Hairstreak Yarrow, meadow and edge flowers

American Copper daisy, dandelion, clovers, Milkweed

Tailed Blue daisy, dandelion, clovers, Milkweed

Spring Azure Coltsfoot, daisy, Milkweed, other meadow flowers

Cloudless Sulphur hibiscus, cassia, Pentas, bougainvillea

Clouded Sulphur clovers, dandelion, Phlox, Milkweed

Orange Sulphur clovers, dandelion, Parsley, Zinnia, other meadow flowers, composite family