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Damage to Crown flower done by Monarch butterfly caterpillars (Danaus plexippus).
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/8479530183/in/photostream/There appears to be a love or hate affiliation with Crown flowers and Monarch butterflies, with some opinions straddling the fence. People who grow crown flowers for lei or merely as a landscape plant, understandably, do not want the caterpillars eating their plants. Those that love the Monarchs do not want to see them destroyed. But like it or not, Crown flower is a favored food for Monarch butterfly caterpillars in Hawaii. Untreated plants usually receive extensive damage to foliage.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/
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Girraween, Queensland, Australia
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Danaus plexippus. Photographed at the National Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Garden. Photographer: Dexter Hinckley.
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Gambrills, Maryland, United States
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Gambrills, Maryland, United States
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Sotogrande, Andalusia, Spain
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Gambrills, Maryland, United States
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Santa Cruz, California, United States
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Osceola, Florida, United States
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Danaus plexippus. Photographed at the National Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Gardens. Photographer: Dexter Hinckley.
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Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top Camp, Queensland, Australia
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Gambrills, Maryland, United States
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Edgewood, Florida, United States
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Hodgson Vale, Queensland, Australia
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Monarch butterfly NymphalidaeIntroduced to the Hawaiian IslandsOahu, Hawaii, USACaterpillars feeding on Crown flower (Calotropis gigantea), a very large relative of milkweeds.There appears to be a love or hate affiliation with Crown flowers and Monarch butterflies, with some opinions straddling the fence. People who grow crown flowers for lei or merely as a landscape plant, understandably, do not want the caterpillars eating their plants. Those that love the Monarchs do not want to see them destroyed. But like it or not, Crown flower is a favored food for Monarch butterfly caterpillars in Hawaii. Untreated plants usually receive extensive damage to foliage.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/
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Christmas, Florida, United States
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Monarch butterfly NymphalidaeIntroduced to the Hawaiian IslandsOahu, Hawaii, USAA caterpillar feeding on Crown flower (Calotropis gigantea), a very large relative of milkweeds.There appears to be a love or hate affiliation with Crown flowers and Monarch butterflies, with some opinions straddling the fence. People who grow crown flowers for lei or merely as a landscape plant, understandably, do not want the caterpillars eating their plants. Those that love the Monarchs do not want to see them destroyed. But like it or not, Crown flower is a favored food for Monarch butterfly caterpillars in Hawaii. Untreated plants usually receive extensive damage to foliage.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/
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Orlando, Florida, United States
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Orlando, Florida, United States