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Estern Tiger Swallowtails feed on the leaves of a a variety of hardwood trees, including birch, tulip poplar, wild cherry, ash, and others.
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What kind of flowers do catapillers like?
It depends on what type of caterpillar it is and what it's host plant is. Caterpillars usually eat the leaves of the plant and not the flowers. For example a monarch butterfly caterpillar eats milkweed leaves. The yellow eastern swallowtail butterfly caterpillars eat fennels, dill weed, and parsley plants. The spicebush swallowtail caterpillars eat spicebush leaves. If you want to attract butterflies to your garden, you must plant the host plant that the butterflies will lay their eggs on.
What type of plant does the caterpillar eat?
√They mainly eat leaves like dandelion. Hope this helps! √
What type of caterpillars eat gardenia leaves?
The Gardenia Bee Hawkmoth caterpillar eats gardenia leaves. The webworm caterpillar also feeds on the leaves on a gardenia plant.
What plant does both the grasshopper and the caterpillar eat?
milkweed
What kind of plant caterpillar eat?
host plants
Do rabbit eat caterpillar?
No, because rabbits are herbivores. A caterpillar is a meat product. Rabbits can only eat plant material!!!
When do caterpillars eat?
it really just depends on which type of caterpillar it is. most caterpillar's eat leaves. if you wet a leaf and leave it on the grass it will come and drink the water on the leaf and then munch on the leaf until the caterpillar, well, doesn't wan;t to eat anymore.
Why do you need to use the leaves of the same plant where got the caterpillar?
It's likely that the plant you found the caterpillar on is the type it likes to eat, and in some cases what the caterpillar eats can affect it as an adult. For example, monarch butterflies, which are poisonous and bad-tasting, gain this by eating milkweed as caterpillars.
What do tomato caterpillars eat?
Only a certain type of caterpillar called a horned tomato caterpillar.
What shape is a caterpillar's egg?
Most butterfly eggs are oval or circular and stuck on to the plant the baby caterpillar will eat.
What kind of plants do caterpillars eat?
Depends upon the species, each type of caterpillar has its own host plant example: monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed. If you move a caterpillar from its specialized host plant it may die because it may not be able to find it's way back to the appropriate plant again.
How many types of plant will each species of caterpillar eat?
Almost all
