Florida & Fauna: Welcoming Butterflies in Any Space

Apr 30, 2021 09:31AM ● By Katie Tripp

Host plants provide not only nectar for adult butterflies, but are the specific species on which female butterflies need to lay their eggs. When those eggs hatch, the caterpillars eat the leaves of their host plants until they are ready to form a chrysalis and undergo the miraculous transformation into butterflies.