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Edible Butterfly Host Plants | Butterfly Garden Basics



Don’t have a lot of space for a butterfly garden? Want to grow food? Then you are in luck! Learn about edible butterfly host plants! Making food for caterpillars and for you and me! Check out these fruits and vegetables that are host plants for butterflies.

In this series, we will be covering the butterfly garden basics. I’ll take you through how to attract butterflies, plants that attract butterflies, flowers that attract butterflies, how to make a butterfly garden at home, nectar plants, host plants and native butterfly garden. Come join me in my butterfly garden in Florida as we start our journey into butterfly gardening!
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0:28 Fruits and Vegetable Host Plants
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3:37 Black Swallowtail Host Plant
4:26 Zebra Swallowtail Host Plant
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22 Comments

  2. Steve zelev

    We went to Kanapaha Botanical Park in Gainesville this past weekend.
    We took the Saturday guided tour 10am-12. It is a must see if you haven't made it there yet.

  3. Steve zelev

    I can't keep up with the monarchs in our yard. The milkweed is usually "stick city". We harvested a seed pod and have quite a few milkweed but the more I plant the more it disappears,😁

  4. E M

    This was such a great video! I don't use pesticides because it just feels wrong to me. Now I know why. I really love butterflies 🦋💕 I already have most of these but my papaya trees died. They were already several years old. Time to get more papaya seeds. Thanks! 😎❤

  6. Maria P.

    I'm glad you talked about the white cabbage"butterfly". I was about to get rid off the caterpillars. ❤️
    The tomato worms, those i hunt them at night with my "special lantern" and pick them off the plant! 😁
    Tomato season? All of my cherry tomatoes exploded, too much rain. 🤷

  8. The Trapper Guy

    I tried using maypop for a trellis near a mulched patio area….but then found out about the runners and it dies back in winter. Then it didn't come back at all the third season. Lol. Introducing it other areas in garden because it attracts loads of Gulf frits.

  11. Jan Stanley

    Thank you so much for sharing all that you share. My heart was to grow food and butterflies in my small yard. Everything you share is exactly what I am looking for! Please keep it up!

  13. LepidLover05

    Im a very picky eater anyways so any food plants that just so happen to host a butterfly or moth caterpillar, was planted for that exact reason 😂

    I've grown mustards, beans, and a tomatoe just so I could get some caterpillars and when the mustards flower, the pollinators will have a pollen or a nectar source either in early spring or late summer. Actually, im currently trying to remove any invasive plants i find and then replace them with either mustards or milkweeds

    But, I wanna try eating healthier because a lot of my family memebers are experiencing health issues right now, and I want to take better care of my body. So this year, im growing cherry tomatoes because I hear they are very delicious and the plant makes a lot of them. I am VERY aware of the tomatoe hornworm, so I planted enough so that I can have my own plant and they can have theirs. If I find any on mine, theyll be moved to another plant 😊

  14. Kim Fierek

    Thanks so much for sharing this list I had no idea these additional plants help our butterflies and moths.

  16. Alanna Chuyan

    Hey! Have you been to Butterfly World in Coconut Creek? I just went this past weekend. It’s amazing! I was also very impressed that they grow, propagate & create their own Passionvine. There were maybe 15+ different varieties there! They also had a garden section with Giant Milkweed & other nice host plants for sale 🦋💜

  21. Sandra Parisi

    Caterpillars Poop is the best fertilizer so yeah they might eat the plant but they are fertilizing as they eat… soil loves it

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