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Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed. Swan Plants are a variety if milkweed. Dogbane and giant milkweed are two other varieties. The family name is Asclepias.
It is true that monarch caterpillars will eat pumpkin although they need some milkweed. Only the larger caterpillars can eat pumpkin though. The caterpillars will not eat any other leaf no matter how hungry. They will rather starve to death than eat a different leaf.
The reason I know all this is that I have raised over 15 caterpillars and I have watched every stage of their life from hatching to making a chrysalis to be coming a butterfly.
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Monarch Caterplillars mainly eat Swan Plants but large ones can survive on pieces of pumpkin.
The above answer is totally FALSE! Monarch caterpillars (cats) eat the Mlkweed plant. The mother lays her eggs directly on the Milkweed, on the underside of the leaf. The cats then eat the leaves. If they eat the leaves of any other plant they will sicken & die.
I can tell you from years of gardening & lots of research that went onto my butterfly garden, that cats do not eat pumkin or the leaves of any other plant other than Milkweed. I would never think of feeding them pumpkin & I have never heard of a Swan Plant. The Latin name for Milkweed is Asclepias, & there are many different kinds of Asclepias. I have pics of Mpmanrch caterpillars on my facebook page, Flowers in Bloom, follow the link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flowers-in-Bloom/187266108057173?ref=hl
Monarch caterpillars DO NOT EAT PUMPKIN!! Monarch cats eat Milkweed. If you feed them pumkin, or anything else other than Milkweed, they will sicken & die!!
There is NO truth to what the above poster wrote, "that larger cats eat pumkin but need some Milkweed." That is an untrue, false & ignorant statement to make.
Monarch cats eat Milkweed & only Milkweed. The mother lays the eggs on the Milkweed, & they eat the Milkweed leaves. Not Pumkin or anything else!
Stop coming on here making riduculous ignorant comments that have no basis in fact!!
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∙ 13y agoA monarch caterpillar eats milkweed.
A monarch caterpillar will become a butterfly in 2-4 weeks.
A monarch caterpillar likes to be left alone, so it tastes poisonously bitter.
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∙ 12y agothey eat swan plants because they are hungrey
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∙ 13y agomosty flower rectar and by tha way I HATE BUTTERFLYES jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk i love them :)
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∙ 15y agomonarch caterpillers eat and only eat milkweed.HANNAH FLEMING WUZ HERE!!!!!!!FROM GA!!!!!!!!!
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∙ 15y agoThey eat milkweed. Asclepia incarnata is one variety that I have had great success with raising them on.
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Can a monarch catepillar eat Mexican petunia?
A monarch caterpillar can only eat the many types of milkweed that grow in different parts of the country. But even if there is no other food available, it cannot and will not eat Mexican Petunia. I
Do monarch caterpillar eat each other?
Yes
What are facts about the monarch caterpillar?
Its first food is its eggshell
Why does a caterpillar like milkweed?
The ant milks the caterpillar because it needs food for the ant colony. The ant also does this to help the caterpillar.
Do monarch butterflies always lay their eggs on milkweed plants?
A monarch caterpillar will look for milk weed, once it finds one it will eat from it. That's how they get their poison. When they come out of their chrysalis they will fly around and every once in a while land on a milk eed and possibly spend a few minutes to a few hours on it. Monarch butterflies will eat milk weed too.
Does the milkweed plant and the monarch caterpillar depend on each other?
Monarch butterflies will only lay their eggs on milkweed because it is their hostplant. A hostplant is the plant that the caterpillar will eat when it hatches from its egg. So, the monarch caterpillar will only eat milkweed, and the monarch butterfly will only lay its eggs on milkweed. The monarch depends in the milkweed, the milkweed does not depend on the monarch butterflies.
What food chain begins with a milkweed?
The food chain would go, milkweed, monarch caterpillar, wasp.
How many animal eat milkweed and what animals are they?
I know only one: the monarch butterfly caterpillar.
What do you give your caterpillar to eat?
Arsenic. Caterpillars love it. it also depends on what type it is if its a monarch you give it milkweed
How can a caterpillar be a food source for a bird?
Because the bird can eat the caterpillar and convert it's mass into usable food energy.
What kind of caterpillar is yellowish white with a black stripe?
It can be a Monarch caterpillar or a Northern Florida caterpillar.
What is a Monarch Butterfly's young?
A Monarch lays eggs, and an egg will hatch into a caterpillar.
