Butterfly Host Plants: Asters, etc & Dainty Sulphur Butterflies--SoCalNPG--Ep. 40

This virtual tour is about the Dainty Sulphur butterfly and its host plants, asters and members of the sunflower family, including Damianita daisy. In my garden, this is what the female butterfly laid her eggs on. Part of a series on butterfly gardening, it shows how to attract butterflies to your native garden by planting butterfly host plants.
You greatly increase your chances of attracting butterflies to your native garden if you plant butterfly food plants. In most cases these are native plants. Butterflies will lay eggs on the host plant and the eggs will become caterpillars which will eat the host plant. After they pupate, they'll emerge, in your backyard, as butterflies and the cycle will begin again.