Edible Butterfly Host Plants | Butterfly Garden Basics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- 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
1:30 Giant Swallowtail Host Plant
2:24 Zebra Longwing & Gulf Fritillary Host Plant
3:37 Black Swallowtail Host Plant
4:26 Zebra Swallowtail Host Plant
4:52 Alope Sphinx Host Plant
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Thank you so much for giving the butterfly names as well as the plants that they like!
My pleasure 😊
Do you like butterflies 🦋 Victoria
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!
You are so welcome!
Hello jan how are you doing
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,😁
Sorry to hear that? 😂 It sounds like you are doing an amazing job helping our monarchs!
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.
I will definitely have to check it out! Thanks for the tip! 😄
☺️☺️☺️ love this video!!! I have most of these in my yard
Yay! 😁
Good video enjoyed it thx for sharing Be safe
Glad you enjoyed it
Spice bush is also a great edible host plant. Great video
Love it!
i shared your video. nicely done. people talk so much bad about the horn worms.
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! 😎❤
I'm so happy you don't use pesticides! The butterflies really appreciate it too! And yes, time for more papaya!
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. 🤷
I'm glad I helped! 😄 My tomatoes are doing the same. I'm trying to remember to pick them early and let them ripen on the counter.
The tomatoes caterpillar become the cool moths that fly and look like hummingbirds. I grow tomatoes just for those moths.
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 🦋💜
I went there when I was little... I think. But that sounds amazing! Definitely worth a trip!
@@WildFloridian Yes, only about $35 total per person & $2 for nectar to feed Lorikeets. The money goes back to Butterfly World, totally worth it! :)
Also, the Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville is awesome!! So many butterflies and gorgeous garden too. I could stay for hours.
Thank you for the tips from
One Floridian to another! I have more plants to go get! Lol
LOL! Glad to help add to your plant list 😂
Thanks so much for sharing this list I had no idea these additional plants help our butterflies and moths.
Glad it was helpful! 🥰
Passionflower tea is so hard to get here and can't really get blue butterfly pea so I might get seeds and plant.. butterflies and tea! 😅
It is a great garden to walk around. Beautiful bamboos. Very shady too but bring your mosquito spray.
Thank you
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 😊
I love it! What a wonderful garden you have and to help improve health for you and food for the flutterbys! Amazing!
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.
If I remember, you are in Tampa area... the Maypop may not die back. Mine went straight through this last winter. Although it did look very sad at times. 😄
@@WildFloridian I guess it doesn't like my yard. lol
Caterpillars Poop is the best fertilizer so yeah they might eat the plant but they are fertilizing as they eat… soil loves it
What can you tell me about the giant Milkweed as a host plant? Is it a safe usable host in my garden?
Do you take any precautions to protect the caterpillars or chrysalides?
Generally... no. Although I just did an experiment to understand whether we had a predator or pesticide issue. Normally I let nature take its course and at most prune.
Will kale work for this?
What zone are you in??
9b/10a
We call them Orange dogs , they will eat all the leaves off your tree
LOL! Never heard of them called orange dogs. 😂 I hear this from time to time... that someone gets so many that it strips their orange tree. But not all or most will be stripped. It seems young trees can get overwhelmed... or a lack of predators is the real issue. To each, their own on what they want to risk. 😄
@@WildFloridian edis.ifas.ufl.edu/entity/topic/orangedog
@@WildFloridian also got my shirt it’s great