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UKButterflies Larval Foodplants website page lists the larval foodplants used by British butterflies. The name of each foodplant links to a Google search. An indication of whether the foodplant is a primary or secondary food source is also given.Please note that the Butterfly you see for only a short time has grown up on plants as an egg, caterpillar and chrysalis for up to 11 months, before becoming a butterfly. If the plants that they live on during that time are removed, or sprayed with herbicide, then you will not see the butterfly. |
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Introduction
Usage of Plants
by Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly usage of
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UKButterflies Larval Foodplants website page lists the larval foodplants used by British butterflies. The name of each foodplant links to a Google search. An indication of whether the foodplant is a primary or secondary food source is also given. Please note that the Butterfly you see for only a short time has grown up on plants as an egg, caterpillar and chrysalis for up to 11 months, before becoming a butterfly. If the plants that they live on during that time are removed, or sprayed with herbicide, then you will not see the butterfly. |
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Butterfly Name |
Egg/ Caterpillar/ Chrysalis/ Butterfly |
Plant Name |
Plant Usage |
Plant Usage Months |
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Egg |
1 egg under leaf. |
1 |
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Caterpillar |
Eats leaves. |
June-March or September to July |
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Chrysalis |
Leaf litter |
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3 weeks |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
1 Month |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
8-10 days in Late May-June or Middle August-September |
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Egg, |
Buckthorn, |
1 egg under leaf. |
10 days in |
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Egg, |
Rock-rose or Storksbilll |
1 egg under leaf. |
May and June and those of the second generation in July to September for 6 days. |
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Egg, |
Horseshoe vetch |
1 egg at base of plant. |
Late August-April |
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Egg, |
Clover, |
1 egg on leaf. |
6 days in |
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Egg, |
Hop |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. --- |
April. 17 days |
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Egg, |
Birdsfoot Trefoil, Clovers, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
Dog Violet, |
1 egg on underside of leaf or on stalk. |
July-August for 17 days. |
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Egg, |
Ribwort Plantain, |
Eggs laid in |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Egg, |
Charlock,
Wild Cabbage family |
1 egg on underside of leaf.
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July or August; hatches in 3 days |
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Egg, |
Cow-Wheat, |
Eggs laid in |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Egg, |
Common Dog Violet, |
1 egg on stem or stalk near plant base. |
July to hatch in 8 months in March. |
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Egg, |
Holly |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
Cocksfoot grass False Brome grass |
1 egg under leaf. |
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Egg, |
Elm, |
Eggs laid in
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Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg,
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Cabbages Cabbages, |
40-100 eggs Eats nectar |
May-June and August-Early September. 4.5-17 days. |
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Egg, |
Devilsbit Scabious, Plantains, Foxglove, |
Eggs laid in |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Egg,
Butterfly |
Garlic Mustard, |
1 egg laid in the tight buds and flowers.
Eats nectar |
May-June 7 days.
May-June for 18 days. |
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Egg, |
Thistles |
1 egg on leaf. |
2 weeks in June. |
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Egg, |
Clover, |
1 egg on leaf. |
10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
Stinging Nettle. |
Dense mass of 450-500 eggs |
14 days in |
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Egg, |
Dog Violet |
1 egg on leaf or stem. |
Hatches after 15 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
Heartsease,
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1 egg laid under the leaf or on top of the flower. |
7 days in August. |
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Egg, |
Pine, |
1 egg on tree trunk |
15 days in July. |
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Egg, |
Dog Violet, |
1 egg on leaf or stem. |
Hatches after 10 days in May-June. |
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Egg,
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Cabbages,
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1 egg on underside of leaf.
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May-June and August. 7 days. |
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Egg, |
Milk Parsley
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1 egg on leaf. 5 or 6 eggs may be deposited by separate females on one leaf.
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14 days in July-August |
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Egg, |
Bitter vetch, Cuckoo Flower, |
1 egg laid on underside of leaflets or bracts. |
7 days in June
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Links to the other Butterflies:- Black Hairstreak |
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