Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio glaucus

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Nectar Plants: Pale Purple Coneflower, Bergamot, Asters, Liatris spp., and White Prairie Clover

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Host Plants: Wild Cherry, Birch, Ash, Basswood, Willow, Sycamore, Tulip Tree

Giant Swallowtail

Papilio cresphontes

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Nectar Plant: Swamp Milkweed

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Host Plants: Hop Tree and Prickly-Ash

Pipevine Swallowtail

Battus philenar

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Nectar Plants: Swamp Milkweed, Latanas

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Host Plants: Wild Ginger and Pipevine (N. American natives only)

Black Swallowtail

Papilio plyxenes

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Nectar Plants: Butterfly Weed, Common Milkweed, and Red Clover

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Host Plants: Fill, Fennel, Parsley, and possibly Golden Alexander

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Zebra Swallowtail

Protographium marcellus

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Nectar Plants: Butterfly Weed, Common Milkweed, and Zinnias

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Host Plant: Pawpaw 

Spicebush Swallowtail

Papilio troilus

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, Sunflowers, and Lantana

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Host Plants: Sassafras and Spicebush

Monarch

Danaus plexippus

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Nectar Plant: Blazing Stars, Milkweeds, and Coeropsis

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Host Plants: Milkweeds, especially Swamp and Common MIlkweed

Viceroy

Limenitis archippus

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Nectar Plants: Asters and Common Milkweed

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Host Plants: Aspens, Willows, Poplar, and Apple; occasionally Cherry and Plum

Question Mark

Polygonia interrogationis

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Nectar Plants: Asters and  Common Milkweed

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Host Plants: Elms, False Nettle, and Hackberry

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Eastern Comma

Polygonia comma

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Nectar Plants: Over-ripe Fruit

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Host Plants: Elms and False-Nettle

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Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

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Nectar Plants: Asters, Blazing Stars, Common Milkweed, and Zinnia

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Host Plants: Hollyhock, Mallow, Sunflowers, Shasta Daisy, and Artemesia spp.

American Lady

Vanessa virginiensis

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Nectar Plants: Asters, Common Milkweed, Goldenrod, Pale Purple Coneflower, Joe-pye Weed, and Liatris spp.

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Host Plants: Ironweed, Mallow, Sunflowers, Artemesia spp.

Red Admiral

Vanessa atalanta

 

Nectar Plants: Asters, Common Milkweed, and Shasta Daisy

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Host Plant: False Nettle

Variegated Fritillary

Euptoieta claudia

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Nectar Plants: Milkweeds

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Host Plants: Violets, Pansies, and Stonecrop

Baltimore Checkerspot

Euphydryas phaeton

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Nectar Plant: Common Milkweed

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Host Plants: Foxglove Beardtongue and Turtlehead

Pearl Crescent

Phyciodes tharos

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Nectar Plants: Asters and Swamp Milkweed

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Host Plants: Asters

Silvery Checkerspot
Chlosyne necteis

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Nectar Plant: Common Milkweed

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Host Plants: Black-Eyed Susan, Coneflowers, Sunflowers, and Liatris spp. 

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Great Spangled Fritillary

Speyeria cybele

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Nectar Plants: Black-Eyed Susan, Butterfly Weed, Swamp Milkweed, and Common Milkweed

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Host Plant: Violets

American Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

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Nectar Plants: Butterfly Weed, Zinnia, Yarrow, and White Clover

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Host Plants: Curly Dock

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Bronze Copper

Lycaena hyllus

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Nectar Plants: Swamp Milkweed and Goldenrod

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Host Plants: Curly Dock and Water Dock

Gray Hairstreak

Strymon melinus

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Nectar Plants: Milkweeds, Goldenrod, and Queen Anne's Lace

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Host Plants: Hibiscus, Hollyhocks, Rose Mallow, White Clover, and Alfalfa

Banded Hairstreak

Satyrium calanus

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Nectar Plants: Common and Swamp Milkweeds

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Host Plants: Oak trees

Common Buckeye

Junonia coenia

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Nectar Plant: Asters, Swamp milkweed

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Host Plants: Petunia,  

Snapdragons, Gerardia spp., Blue Vervain, and Stonecrop

Spring Azure

Celastrina ladon

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed and New Jersey Tea

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Host Plants: New Jersey Tea and Viburnums

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cupido comyntas

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, Asters, Coeropsis, and Zinnia

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Host Plants: White Clover, Milk Vetch, and Blue False Indigo

Red Spotted Purple

Limenitis arthemis

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, Lantana, and over-ripe fruit

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Host Plant: Aspens, Willows, Black Cherry, Oaks, Basswood, and Hawthornes; possibly Cherry and Hornbeam

Mourning Cloak

Nymphalis antiopa

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, Zinnia, Over-ripe Fruit, Tree Sap, and Yarrow 

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Host Plants: Willow, Elm, Aspen, Hackberry, Paper Birch, and Cottonwood

American Snout

Libytheana carinenta

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Nectar Plants: Asters, Black-Eyed Susan, Goldenrod

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Host Plants: Hackberry tree

Whites and Sulphurs

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Host Plants: Bean family species including:

   Cloudless Sulphur: Wild Senna,               Clovers, and other Legumes 

   Clouded (Common) Sulphur: Wild         Blue Indigo, Clovers, and other                 Legumes

   Orange Sulphur: Wild Blue Indigo,           White Clover, Alfalfa, and Lupine

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Erynnis baptisiae

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Nectar Plants: Sunflower and Red Clover

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Host Plants: Wild White Indigo and Blue False Indigo

Silver Spotted Skipper

Epargyrus clarus

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Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, and Blazing Stars

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Host Plants: Blue False Indigo

Peck's Skipper

Polites peckius

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Nectar Plants: Common and Swamp Milkweed, New Jersey Team and Red Clover

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Host Plant: Kentucky Bluegrass

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White-Lined Sphinx Moth

Hyles lineata

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Nectar Plants: Columbines, Clovers, Petunia, Lilac, Thistles, and Jimson Weed

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Host Plants: Willow Weed, Grape,Tomato, Evening Primrose, Apple trees, and Elm Trees

Carolina Sphinx Moth

Manduca sexta

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Nectar Plants: Petunia, Japanese Honeysuckle, and Moonflower

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Host Plants: Potato, Tomato, Tobacco, and Solanaceae

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Hummingbird Clearwing Moth

Hemaris thysbe

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Nectar Plants: Bergamot, Pholx, Red Clover, Snowberry, and Thistles

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Host Plants: Hawthorns, Cherries, Snowberry, and Honeysuckle