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American Painted Lady Butterfly
Vanessa virginiensis

Please order twice the number of eggs than you need larvae. Remember to give fresh food daily even before they hatch. Please have your insecticide free host plants before you receive your order. If you can not secure these plants we offer them for sale on or web site. If these babies are not carefully watched as they hatch, they may eat unhatched eggs.
See the Egg Emerging Page.
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Cudweed
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Cudweed is simply a weed which grows in yards, gardens, fields, and ditches.
It's a weed we mow, hoe, weedeat, and pull from soil
never realizing it is essential to American Lady butterflies.
In Florida, this butterfly is a sign of spring.
When summer arrives, the American Lady is rarely seen.
One caterpillar used three plants
to create its nest.
American Lady caterpillars
tightly curl when disturbed.
An American Lady caterpillar eating.
An American Lady caterpillar
hangs in a 'J' preparing
to pupate into a chrysalis.
A chrysalis (pupa) may be either neon green ...
... or the chrysalis may be gray.