Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: PART 2 BF Host Plant Seed Trade DISCUSSION, 1 by tropicalkaren

tropicalkaren wrote:
I have raised black swallowtail cats on both parsley and fennel. They seem interchangeable- I don't see that they prefer one to the other.

I have raised Giant Swallowtails on my orange (minneola) tree.

Monarchs on milkweed, both the solid yellow and the red/yellow plants.

Cloudless sulfurs on the cassia, but the ants and other predators get them, which is why I want to propagate some cassia for on my lanai.

Gulf frittilaries love my passionflower vine (maypop) which is mostly in shade. Supposedly, if it was in the sun it would attract zebra longwings.

Tomato hornworms on tomato plants become beautiful Sphinx moths.

Io moth cats love crepe myrtle leaves.

That's what I have had success with so far. Karen