Many gardeners desire immaculate foliage , but to us perfect foliation mean there are n’t enough caterpillars crunch leave of absence to make the gauze-like moths and smart - colored butterflies that we need . Many folks have lost the connectedness between the butterflies and moth they require , and the need to grow host works for the larva of those same butterflies and moths .
While bees and butterflies seem to be timeserving Renaissance man , sipping any flower — aboriginal or not — that pump the most sugary ambrosia at the moment , Caterpillar are fussy eaters , with most species consume only a few kinds of plants . Here are just a few of the legion plants we grow within the garden , and the caterpillar they aliment .
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Monarch
Monarch . Photo : Kenneth Dwain Harrelson / courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
overcast sulfur . Photo : Megan McCarty / good manners of commons.wikimedia.org
Clouded sulphur
Plants in the legume family ( Fabaceae ) let in :
American lady
American noblewoman . exposure : Derek Ramsey / courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
Black morning coat . photograph : Gordon E. Robertson / good manners of commons.wikimedia.org
Black swallowtail
— John Gwynne is a landscape architect who splits his horticulture metre between New York City and Little Compton , Rhode Island .
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Photo: Danielle Sherry
Monarch.Photo: Kenneth Dwain Harrelson/courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
Clouded sulphur.Photo: Megan McCarty/courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
American lady.Photo: Derek Ramsey/courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
Black swallowtail.Photo: Gordon E. Robertson/courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org
