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Butterfly/Moth Larval Hosts

by Rhonda Zigler

Acacia: Mexican Yellow, Outis Skipper

Acanthus: Texan Crescent

Alder: Green Comma

Alfalfa: Clouded Sulfur, Orange Sulfur, Marine Blue

Alsike Clover: Greenish Blue (flowering parts)

Amaranth: Common Sootywing

American Elm: Giant Swallowtail, Question Mark, Comma, Mourning Cloak

Asclepias sp.: Monarch, Queen

Ash: Two Tailed Swallowtail

Aspen: White Admiral, Red-Spotted Purple, Weidemeyer's Admiral, Dreamy Duskywing

Asters: Dainty Sulfur (low growing plants), Silvery Checkerspot, Harris' Checkerspot (Flat-topped White Aster), Sagebrush Checkerspot, Pearl Crescent, Northern Crescent, Tawny Crescent (Wavy-leafed Aster), Field Crescent

Atlantic White-cedar: Hessels Hairstreak

Beaked Hazel: Early Elfin

Beardtongues: Dotted Checkerspot, Baltimore Checkerspot
Beech: Early Elfin

Beggar's Ticks: Hoary Edge, Southern Cloudywing, Northern Cloudywing

Bermuda Grass: Gemmed Satyr, Red Satyr, Orange Skipperling, Southern Skipperling, Fiery Skipper, Whirlabout, Sachem

Besseya: Variable Checkerspot
Big Bluestem: Cobweb Skipper, Arogos Skipper, Dusted Skipper

Bindweed: Painted Crescent

Birch: Green Comma (Black b.), Compton Tortiseshell, Mourning Cloak, Dreamy Duskywing

Bird's Foot Violet: Regal Fritillary

Black-eyed Susan: Silvery Checkerspot
Black Locust: Silver-spotted Skipper, Zarucco Duskywing

Blueberry: Green Comma

Blue Grama Grass: Common Alpine, Ridings' Satyr, Uncas Skipper, Leonard's Skipper, Pahaska Skipper
Bluegrass: Long Dash, Hobomok Skipper

Bottlebrush: Northern Pearly-eye

Broadleaf Uniola: Northern Pearly-eye, Linda's Roadside-skipper, Bell's Roadside-skipper
Bugbane: Appalacian Azure (flowers)

Buckwheat: Acmon Blue (flowers and developing seeds)

Columbine: Columbine Duskywing

Cane: Southern Pearly-eye (Giant and Switch), Creole Pearly-eye (Switch), Reversed Roadside-skipper (switch)
Cannas: Brazilian Skipper

Carpet Grass: Carolina Satyr

Cassias: Cloudless Sulfur, Orange-Barred Sulfur, Little Yellow, Sleepy Orange

Currants: Hoary Comma

Centipede Grass: Carolina Satyr

Chokeberry: Coral Hairstreak
Chokecherry: Two Tailed Swallowtail

Citrus: Giant Swallowtail

Clovers: Clouded Sulfur (white), Orange Sulfur (white), Hoary Edge (bush), Southern Cloudywing (bush), Northern Cloudywing (bush)

Cockscomb: Common Sootywing
Common Reed: Aaron's Skipper, Broad-winged Skipper

Cottonwood: Mourning Cloak, Weidemeyer's Admiral

Crabgrass: Fiery Skipper

Cranberries: Bog Copper

Diphysa: Mexican Yellow

Dogwood: Spring Azure

Dock family: Gray Copper, Ruddy Copper, Purplish Copper, Bronze Copper (Water and Curled Dock)

Eastern Gramma Grass: Byssus Skipper

Everlastings: American Lady
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False Foxglove: Baltimore Checkerspot, Common Buckeye

False Indigo: Southern Dogface, Hoary Edge

False Nettle: Question Mark, Eastern Comma, Red Admiral

Figs: Ruddy Daggerwing

Goats Beard: Dusky Azure (young leaves)

Goatweed: Goatweed Leafwing

Gooseberry: Green Comma, Gray Comma

Grasses: Little Wood-Satyr, Common Ringlet, Common Wood-nymph, Uhler's Arctic, Clouded Skipper, Least Skipper, Garita Skipperling, European Skipper (timothy), Common Branded Skipper, Indian Skipper, Nevada Skipper, Peck's Skipper, Crossline Skipper, Whirlabout, Sachem, Delaware Skipper, Zabulon Skipper, Taxiles Skipper, Bronze

Hackberry: American Snout, Question Mark, Mourning Cloak, Hackberry Emperor, Tawny Emperor

Hairy Tubetongue: Vesta Crescent, Painted Crescent

Heath family: Striped Hairstreak, Brown Elfin, Northern Blue

Hickory family: Banded Hairstreak, Hickory Hairstreak

Hog Peanut: Gold-banded Skipper

Hollies: Henry's Elfin

Hollyhocks: West Coast Lady, Common Checkered-Skipper
Hop Tree: Giant Swallowtail, Two Tailed Swallowtail

Hops: Question Mark (Japanese), Eastern Comma
Huckleberry: Henry's Elfin

Indigo Bush: Southern Dogface

Juniper family: Juniper Hairstreak

Knotweed family: Purplish Copper

Lamb's Quarters: Hayhurst's Scallopwing, Common Sootywing

Lead Plant: Southern Dogface

Leadwort: Marine Blue

Lignum Vitae: Lyside Sulfur

Lilacs: California Tortiseshell (wild)
Little Bluestem: Swarthy Skipper, Ottoe Skipper, Leonard's Skipper, Cobweb Skipper, Dusted Skipper
Lodgepole Pine: Pine White Butterfly

Legume family: Large Orange Sulfur (woody plants), Marine Blue, Ceraunus Blue (flowers of woody plants), Eastern Tailed-Blue (flowers and seeds), Western Tailed-Blue (flowers and seeds), Painted Lady, Long-tailed Skipper (viney), Dorantes Skipper (viney), Southern Cloudywing, Northern Cloudywing, Zarucco Duskywing, Funereal Duskywing
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Mallow family: Gray Hairstreak (flowers), Painted Lady, West Coast Lady, Common Checkered-Skipper

Marsh Millet: Broad-winged Skipper

Maypops: Gulf Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary
Mistletoe: Great Purple Hairstreak

Morning Glory: West Coast Lady
Mustard family: Checkered White, Western White, Mustard White, Cabbage White, Large Marble, Olympia Marble, Falcate Orangetip

Needlegrass: Uncas Skipper
Nettle: Question Mark, Eastern Comma, Satyr Comma, Milbert's Tortiseshell, Red Admiral

New Jersey Tea: Spring Azure, Mottled Duskywing
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Oak family: Banded Hairstreak, Southern Hairstreak, White M Hairstreak, Red-Banded Hairstreak (fallen leaves), Edwards Hairstreak (Scrub o.), White Admiral (Black o.), Red-Spotted Purple (Black o.), California Sister, Sleepy Duskywing, Juvenal's Duskywing, Meridian Duskywing, Horace's Duskywing, Mournful Duskywing
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Paintbrush: Fulvia Checkerspot, Variable Checkerspot (Indian pb

Panic Grass: Tawny-edged Skipper, Northern Broken-dash, Whirlabout, Hobomok Skipper
Parsley family (carrot, dill, Queen Anne's Lace): Black Swallowtail, Ozark Swallowtail, Anise Swallowtail

Paspalum: Southern Broken-dash
Passion-vine Family: Gulf Fritillary, Julia, Zebra

Pawpaw: Zebra Swallowtail

Pea family: Large Orange Sulfur (woody plants), Gray Hairstreak (flowers), Ceraunus Blue (flowers of woody plants), Reakirt's Blue

Penstemon: Variable Checkerspot
Pigweed: Western Pygmy Blue

Pine family: Eastern Pine Elfin
Pipe Vines: Cattle heart Butterfly,Pipevine Swallowtail

Plantain: Common Buckeye

Poplar: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, White Admiral, Red-Spotted Purple, Dreamy Duskywing

Prairie Tea: Goatweed Leafwing

Prickly Ash: Giant Swallowtail

Pussytoes: American Lady

Pussy Willow: Green Comma

Purple-top: Common Wood-nymph, Crossline Skipper, Little Glassywing
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Rabbitbrush: Sagebrush Checkerspot

Red Bay: Palamedes Swallowtail

Redbud: Henry's Elfin

Redroot: Mottled Duskywing
Red Cedar: Juniper Hairstreak

Roadside-skipper, Pepper and Salt Skipper, Nysa Roadside-skipper, Common Roadside-skipper, Eufala Skipper, Ocola Skipper
Rock Cress: Olympia Marble, Falcate Orangetip, Large Marble

Rose family: Striped Hairstreak, Cabbage White

Roundleaf Ragwort: Northern Metalmark

Ruellia: Common Buckeye

Rushes: Common Ringlet

Saltbush: Western Pygmy Blue
Sassafrass: Spicebush Swallowtail, Palamedes Swallowtail

Sedges: Eyed Brown, Appalachian Brown, possibly Georgia Satyr, Uhler's Arctic, Common Branded Skipper, Mulberry Wing, Palatka Skipper, Dion Skipper, Duke's Skipper, Black Dash, Two-spotted Skipper, Dun Skipper

Sheep Sorrel: American Copper

Shrubby Cinquefoil: Dorcas Copper

Snakeroot: Baird's Swallowtail

Snapdragon: Common Buckeye

Snowberry: Variable Checkerspot
Spicebush: Spicebush Swallowtail

Soapberry, Western: Soapberry Hairstreak

Soapweed: Strecker's Giant-skipper (small)

St. Augustine Grass: Red Satyr, Whirlabout
Sugarberry: American Snout, Hackberry Emperor, Tawny Emperor
Sumac: Red-Banded Hairstreak (fallen leaves)
Sweet Bay: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Sweetleaf (common): Kings Hairstreak

Texas Croton: Goatweed Leafwing

Thistle family: Swamp Metalmark, Little Metalmark (Yellow t.), Painted Lady

Toadflax: Common Buckeye

Tragia neptifolia: Common Mestra

Turtlehead: Baltimore Checkerspot

Vetch family: Orange Sulfur, Silvery Blue, Acmon Blue (flowers and developing seeds), Barred Yellow (Joint v.), Southern Cloudywing (milk), Northern Cloudywing (milk), Wild Indigo Duskywing (crown)

Viburnum: Henry's Elfin, Spring Azure

Violets: Variegated Fritillary, Diana, Great Spangled Fritillary, Aphrodite Fritillary, Edwards' Fritillary, Coronis Fritillary, Callippe Fritillary, Atlantis Fritillary, Mormon Fritillary, Silver-Bordered Fritillary, Meadow Fritillary

Walnut family: Banded Hairstreak

Wax Myrtle: Red-Banded Hairstreak (fallen leaves)
White Grass: Northern Pearly-eye
Wild Cherry: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Western Tiger Swallowtail, Coral Hairstreak, Spring Azure, White Admiral, Red-Spotted Purple
Wild Indigo: Frosted Elfin, Wild Indigo Duskywing

Wild Lupine: Frosted Elfin, Melissa Blue, Karner Blue, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Persius Duskywing

Wild Plum: Coral Hairstreak

Wild Rice: Broad-winged Skipper
Willows: Acadian Hairstreak, Compton Tortiseshell, Mourning Cloak, Viceroy, Weidemeyer's Admiral, Dreamy Duskywing

Wisteria: Silver-spotted Skipper

Yellow Pine: Pine White Butterfly

Yucca: Yucca Giant-skipper, Cofaqui Giant-skipper