Provide host plants for the caterpillar forms of butterflies ... It may be that a particular plant is not the preferred larval food of local butterflies.

Nov–Apr: Pupae overwinter away from the host plant. May–Jun ... Eggs are laid in batches and the larvae feed gregariously, so it is relatively easy to spot plants damaged by large white butterfly. The ...

Butterfly bush isn't a larval host plant and doesn't provide the habitat butterflies need for the next cycle of butterflies. Here's why butterfly bush isn't the best plant for butterflies and ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

Fall and winter rains spark the germination of the host plant, which in turn causes the larvae to come out of dormancy. These butterflies may spend several years in a dormant period, briefly breaking ...

Echoing our finding, other scientists conducted a genetic analysis in 2023 that also found no evidence of population decline in monarchs, or in common milkweed, the butterflies’ main larval host plant ...

BREEDING: In July or August, adult butterflies lay a cluster of 10 to 100 eggs on the New Mexico penstemon, a beautiful plant endemic to the state's Sacramento Mountains. Larvae hatch and begin ...

Butterflies like to summer in Houston. The cold-blooded insects don't mind the heat and humidity. Plus, butterflies drink by sucking water from the moist ground, and we have plenty of that.

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus ... Loss of milkweed (Asclepiadaceae) host plants in the spring and summer breeding habitat in ...

The butterfly species Tomares nesimachus has a life cycle that is fully dependent on its host species ... The female lays her eggs on the plant, and the larvae develop into butterflies.