Butterfly Host Plants: Mustards & Sara Orangetips-SoCalNPG-Ep.47

This video from our outing to the nearby regional park introduces the Sara Orangetip butterfly and its host plants, which are native and nonnative mustards. Part of a series on butterfly gardening, it shows how to attract butterflies to your native garden by planting butterfly nectar and host plants.
For the Sara Orangetip a variety of California native plants with small to medium sized flowers act as good sources of nectar and native mustards are among the host plants for its caterpillars. Use California native plants to attract these and many other butterflies to your butterfly garden.
You greatly increase your chances of attracting butterflies to your garden if you plant butterfly food plants. In most cases these are native plants. Butterflies will lay eggs on the host plants, the eggs will become caterpillars which will eat the host plants. After they pupate, they'll emerge, in your backyard, as butterflies and the cycle will begin again.

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Thank you for this informative video. Saw one of these fliting around and wondered what it was. With help frim Google Search and your video i do!

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Glad it helped!

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Have also been seeing many Orangetips out this year ! I wish had Fred Heath's Butteryfly book.

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Yes, Heath's butterfly book is very good. Thanks for watching!