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| Host Plants. These plants are food for the caterpillar. They are necessary in your garden. Living in Naples, Florida I find that monarchs and zebras are most common to my garden. Do NOT use pesticides in your yard or garden. If you get aphids on your milkweed, simply spray them with rubbing alcohol. It quickly evaorates leaving behind no toxic residue to harm caterpillars or butterflies.. Be sure not to spray the caterpillars. |
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| These first two photos are of scralet milkweed. the monarch caterpillar feeds on this plant only. no other plant is a food source for the caterpillar. below is the chrysalis (cocoon) and a monarch caterpillar. they do not bite or sting. the chrysalis will turn clear just before the butterfly is about to emerge. the butterfly needs a sunny space to dry off it's wings before it can fly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| these exoctic looking flowers are from passion flower vine. it needs bright sunny areas to grow. it's food for the zebra caterpillar. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| dill (above) and parsley (left) are both food for the zebra caterpillar aswell. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| above is a flatwoods pawpaw. again for the zebra butterfly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||