Butterfly Host Trees of SeasonWatch

Host plants provide food and shelter for butterfly larvae.
Butterflies are quite selective when choosing host plants.

Can you guess which trees these butterflies choose?

(Ref- www.ifoundbutterflies.org)

This common garden tree hosts the Tailed, Great and Common Jays (Photo by Renju)

False Ashok (Monoon longifolium)

Devil's Tree (Alstonia scholaris)

This religiously important tree that is also the host plant of Lemon Emigrant (Photo by Narendra Bhagwat)

Deodar (Cedrus deodara)

Jhinjheri (Bauhinia racemosa)

Oriental Palm Bob lays its eggs on (Photo by Sreenivasan)

Red Silk Cotton (Bombax ceiba)

Coconut (Cocos nucifera)

Among the silk cotton trees, this is the larval host plant of the Common Sailer (Photo by Sarvadaman Kulkarni)

Floss Silk Tree (Ceiba speciosa)

Red Silk Cotton (Bombax ceiba)

Small Cupid uses this spiny scrubland species as its larval host (Photo by Swanand Kesari)

Chinese Lantern Tree (Dichrostachys cinerea)

Indian Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)

The Common Crow uses this tree with milky latex as a larval host plant among many others (Photo by Renju)

Country Fig (Ficus racemosa)

Cannonball Tree (Couroupita guianensis)

The Large Oakblue uses this common tree for its larvae (Photo by Siddhanta23)

Garlic Pear Tree (Crataeva religiosa)

Indian Almond (Terminalia catappa)

This beloved fruit tree is also the host plant for Common Baron (Photo by Ninad Gosavi)

Wood Apple (Aegle marmelos)

Mango (Mangifera indica)

In the Himalayas, the Fawn Hairstreak butterfly lays eggs on (Photo by Niket Alashi)

Tree Rhododendron (Rhododendron arboreum)

Walnut (Juglans regia)

Among the parasitic host plants of the Indian Jezebel, this large-leaved tree stands out (Photo by Elavarasan M)

Kanakchampa (Pterospermum acerifolium)

Indian Kino Tree (Pterocarpus marsupium)