How Do You Feed Painted Lady Butterflies?
Painted Lady butterflies are very common, found all over the world, except in Australia and Antarctica. There are Painted Lady butterfly kits available from many companies so you can raise them yourself. This has been a popular learning project for children in school and at home. A new trend has surfaced of releasing several Painted Lady butterflies at a wedding. Whether you have a kit or you watch them in your own back yard, you need to know how to feed Painted Lady butterflies at each stage of their lives. Grow or gather the leaves of plants in the aster, pea, compositae, or malvaceae families such as mallow, asters, sunflowers, thistle and hollyhocks. Larvae feed on stinging nettles and thistle in Europe and Africa. Caterpillars everywhere like the leaves from thistle, fiddleneck, asters, peas, clover and alfalfa. Plant tall plants, 3 to 6 feet high, in a sunny area. Adult Painted Lady butterflies like asters, thistle, cosmos, sunflowers, blazing star, joe pye weed and ironweed. The
