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When is the best time to plant a a butterfly garden?
The best time. Is in the spring. Plant butterfly weed and milkweed in the spring. Adult butterflies like many nectar plants but caterpillars are fussy eaters. Monarch caterpillars need milkweed. Swallowtails like dill and carrot. Your local nursery will have a list of butterfly plants in your area.
What animals eat milk weed?
The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly. They take up the toxins from the plant and use it to become toxic themselves, that´s why they and the orange butterfly have such bright colours.
Does caterpilers eat milk weed?
yes !!! they do eat milk weed I'm a animals expert so I know (and I'm only 9 years old!!!! Amazing!!) That would be the caterpillars of the monarch butterfly. They use the toxins of the milkweed to become toxic themselves so predators steer clear of them. The butterfly is toxic, too.
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 would you find by a monarch butterfly?
milk weed
What is a butterfly that flies south for the winter and lays eggs on milk weed?
monarch butterfly
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.
Where do monarch caterpillars live?
The monarch butterfly can be found living in eastern North America. They migrate to the warmer states, such as California, when the eastern states get colder.
How do you make charming butterfly gardens?
Make sure you have plenty of diversity in your butterfly garden so that there are plants that bloom all spring and summer. Milkweed is a favorite of monarchs. Swallowtails like dill. You need the host plants for the caterpillars but the adult butterflies like butterfly weed, butterfly bush, lantana, coneflowers, asters, azalea, Joe Pye weed, and zinnia. The Missouri Botanical Gardens has a nice web page on this. You can also have some butterfly puddlers. Butterflies need shallow sources of water and they get minerals by walking on mud.
What weed is vital to survival of the monarch butterfly?
The common milkweed, which the monarch uses to lay it's egg on. Also the monarchs eat the toxic milk weed and thereby gain a deterent against predation.
What is the origin of butterfly weed?
Butterfly weed, scientifically known as Asclepias tuberosa, is native to North America, primarily found in the eastern and central regions of the United States and Canada. It typically grows in open fields, prairies, and along roadsides, thriving in well-drained soils and full sun. The plant is well-known for its bright orange flowers, which attract pollinators like butterflies, particularly monarchs. Butterfly weed is part of the milkweed family and serves as a crucial host plant for monarch caterpillars.
Does a caterpillar eat fern?
Yes, most catepillars eat plants. The type of plant/s depends on the species of catepillar. i.e. Monarch butterfly catepillars favorite plant is Acelepias, common name "Butterfly weed" or "Milkweed". Many avid gardeners plant Ascelepias for the Monarchs which also feed on the nectar.
