Wandering Fritillaries?

Has anyone ever seen GFs eat anything other than passionvine?
The reason I'm asking is that I was looking at some seedlings that pop up under one of my oak trees and I found 3 large GF cats on the seedlings. Could they have been eating the leaves or just wandering to find a place to pupate? They were clear across the backyard from where the passionvine grows. The seedlings are only about 6 inches tall. And to find three of them right together.....

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this?

thanks,
Terrie

Terrie,
I assume the seedlings under the oak were oak babies and weren't passiflora runners. Many vigerous passiflora will send up new shoots far from the original vine which is why they are sometimes considered invasive. Although it does seem odd to find three GF cats together far from their food source, GF cats only eat passiflora. Trudi

How odd! If they were large cats then they had to have been eating something, somewhere. If your seedlings were still visable and these large cats were on them, then it would seem like they probably weren't eating those. Right? No visable signs of a passionvine runner near the tree that had been eaten down, hence the large cats, and then they moved over to the seedlings together? Does your neighbor have pv? ...? Weird!

That's what was weird. No passionflower vines anywhere near where the cats were. The closest passie was at least 20 feet away.

I brought the cats into a cage along with a couple of the oak seedlings and a couple passionflower cuttings. This morning 2 cats are on the side of the cage, and one is still on the oak seedling.

Thanks, everyone. I was pretty sure they only ate PV but wanted to see if anyone else had seen anything like this. Sounds like they were probably just wandering around.

Terrie