Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My first butterfly pix!, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Vossner...

Do you have passion flower vines in your yard? That is the host plant for the gulf fritillary...as well as for other fritillary species.

The butterflies down here lay gobs of eggs on my vines...and the caterpillars end up stripping them completely (but the leaves do grow back out). It's wonderful to watch the female ovipositing and watching the tiny eggs as they hatch out little cats which turn into bigger hungrier cats :o) The chrysalis is quite cool looking too. I knew where most of them hung and checked on them daily until the new butterflies emerged.

Do you get Variegated Frits there? That species is supposed to be common through out Texas. It is awesome too. We get that and the Mexican Fritillary down here in the south tip of Texas.

~ Cat