Wednesday, March 29, 2017

List of Butterfly and Moth Host Plants

Host Plants for Butterflies


P  Artemisia stellariana 'Silver Brocade'  American Painted Lady
Birch  Mourning Cloak,
F  Black-Eyed Susan  Silvery Checkerspot
Burdock  American Painted Lady, Painted Lady
F  Butterfly Weed/Orange Glory (Milkweed family) Monarchs
Carrot  Eastern Black Swallowtail
Celery  Eastern Black Swallowtail
Clover  Eastern Tailed Blue, Clouded Sulphur
Aster  Pearl Crescent
V  Dutchman's Pipe/Pipevine  Pipevine Swallowtail
H Dill  Eastern Black Swallowtail
Elm  Comma, Mourning Cloak
Purple Coneflower  Silvery Checkerspot
F  Pearly Everlasting  American Painted Lady, Painted Lady
W/F  Milkweed  Monarch, Queen, Soldier
Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis)  Karner Blue
F  False Indigo (Baptisia) Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, Eastern Tailed Blue, Silver Spotted Skipper
Fennel  Eastern Black Swallowtail
W Garlic Mustard Cabbage White
F  Gas Plant (Dictamnus fraxinella 'Rubra')  Giant Swallowtail
Grasses/Sedges  Skippers, Black Dash, Wood Nymphs
Hackberry  American Snout, Hackberry Emperor, Question Mark, Tawny Emperor, Mourning Cloak, Snout
F  Hibiscus  Gray Hairstreak
F  Hollyhock  American Painted Lady, Painted Lady, Checkered Skipper
Hops  Comma, Question Mark
Various Grasses  Common Wood Nymph, Wood Satyr, Fiery Skipper, Least Skipper
Lovage  Eastern Black Swallowtail
B  Lilac  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail,  Privet Hawk Moth
F  Lupine  Silvery Blue butterfly
F  (Lupinus perennis) Blue Lupine/Wild Lupine/Sundial Lupine Karner Blue (endangered species), frosted Elfin
F  Mallow  Checkered Skipper, Painted Lady
F  New Jersey Tea  Spring Azure
Passion Vine Gulf Fritillary, Julia, Variegated Fritillary, Zebra Longwing, Crimson-Patch Longwing, Red-banded Hairstreak, Mexican Fritillary
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) Zebra Swallowtail
Pipevine  Pipevine Swallowtail, Polydamus Swallowtail
Plantain  Baltimore Checkerspot
Rue  Eastern Black Swallowtail
F  Senna (Cassia)  Clouded Sulphur, Cloudless Sulphur, Sleepy Orange, Southern Dogface
W/H  Sheep Sorrel  American Copper
Snap Dragon  Buckeye
F  Sneezeweed/Helen's Flower (Helenium autumnale)  Dainty Sulphur
B   Spicebush  Spicebush Swallowtail
W/H Stinging Nettle  Red Admiral, Comma, Question Mark, Milbert's Tortoiseshell
F  Sunflower   Gorgone Checkerspot, Silvery Checkerspot, Painted Lady
Thistle  Painted Lady
F  Trifolium  Clouded Sulphur, Eastern Tailed Blue, Gray Hairstreak
Turtlehead  Baltimore Checkerspot
F  Violet/Viola/Pansy  Fritillary butterflies
Willow  Mourning Cloak, Red Spotted Purple, Tiger Swallowtail, Viceroy, White Admiral
B Pink Flowering Almond (Prunus glandulosa)  Tiger Swallowtail, Viceroy, Red-Spotted Purple, White Admiral


W=Weed
F=Flower
B=Bush
T=Tree
V=Vine
H=Herb/Vegetable

Host Plants for Moths


B Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum) Hummingbird Moth
B  Privet  Privet Hawk Moth (Sphinx ligustri),
Ash, Lilac, Jasmine   Privet Hawk Moth
Viburnum, Honeysuckle  Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
Birch, Sumac, Walnut, Hickory, Sweetgum, Persimmon  Luna
Tomato, Eggplant, Pepper, Potato, Tobacco, Grapevine, Moonflower, Virginia Creeper  Sphynx/Hawk Moths
alder, apple, ash, beech, birch, box-elder, cherry, dogwood, elm, gooseberry, maple, plum, poplar, white oak, willow, lilac, tamarack  Cecropia

This is a short list, as there are many more host plants for both butterflies and moths!

--LKR