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Buckeye Junonia coenia

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.
Hostplant
Rib Grass Plantain
Hostplant
Green Shrimp
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Common Buckeye eggs on
plantain Plantago lanceolata.
A Buckeye larvae eating
False Foxglove Agalinas purpurea.
Wild ruellia Ruellia caroliniensis is a host plant for Buckeye Butterflies Junonia coenia.
Buckeye larva on Blue Toadflax
Linaria canadensis.
A shorter toadflax Linaria canadensis
is also used by Buckeyes.
A Buckeye larvae eating
Phillipine violet Barleria cristata.
Bloom colors: light purple or white.
Mexican Petunia Ruellia brittoniana is a host plant for
Buckeye Butterflies.
Bloom colors: Purple, white, and pink.