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Sulphur Butterfly Host Plant Kit 
Sulphur Butterfly Habitat KitYour kit includes everything you need to attract and nurture Sulphur Butterflies!
Includes:
- Easy to Grow Host Plant
seeds - Growing Guide
- Caterpillar & Butterfly Conservation and Care Guide
- Plant ID Stakes
- Step by Step Instructions
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Sulphur: Egg to Butterfly
Like most Sulphurs, this butterfly rarely perches with open wings. Males patrol with rapid flight, searching for females. The female lays her pitcher-shaped white eggs, on the leaves or flower buds of either Cassia (Partridge Pea) or Senna species, host plants. The eggs eventually turn a pale orange and hatch in about 6 days.
Once the egg hatches, a caterpillar emerges that is yellow or greenish with a yellow stripe along its sides. Some have blue markings while others have small spots or wide bands. The body has rows of short black points. The caterpillar will build a tent in the host plant where is hides in the day. As it grows, the Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar becomes either yellow or green, depending on whether it is eating the leaves or flower buds of the host plant! Each caterpillar molts about 4 times before pupating and becoming a chrysalis.
When the caterpillar is ready for this final stage, it will spin tiny silk threads from which is hangs. For camouflage, the chrysalis hardens to the shape of a leaf of the host plant!
In about 9-11 days, your butterfly will be ready to emerge!
Normally, most butterflies emerge early in the morning, just as the sun is coming up. Its wings will be very small and crumpled, but as the butterfly hangs to dry, it pumps fluid through tiny veins, into its wings. In a few hours, its wings will be hardened and dry and the butterfly will be ready to take flight.
Other Sulphur Butterflies that you will find on your Partridge Pea, Senna and Clover host plants include: Orange Barred Sulphur, Little Yellow, Clouded Sulphur, Sleepy Orange Butterfly and Southern Dogface.
Favorite butterfly nectar plants include Dandelion, Milkweed, Tall verbena, Coneflowers, Lantana, Zinnia, Butterfly bush & Cosmos.
Sulphur: Egg to Butterfly
The Cloudless Sulphur is found across
most of the United States. You will find them in open spaces, gardens,
seashores, road edges and backyards. The male is a beautiful, solid lemon
yellow butterfly with a wingspan of about 2 to 3 inches. The female can be yellow or white and has a
brownish-black border. Both sexes have
two small silver spots on the underside of their wings.
Like most Sulphurs, this butterfly rarely perches with open wings. Males patrol with rapid flight, searching for females. The female lays her pitcher-shaped white eggs, on the leaves or flower buds of either Cassia (Partridge Pea) or Senna species, host plants. The eggs eventually turn a pale orange and hatch in about 6 days.
Once the egg hatches, a caterpillar emerges that is yellow or greenish with a yellow stripe along its sides. Some have blue markings while others have small spots or wide bands. The body has rows of short black points. The caterpillar will build a tent in the host plant where is hides in the day. As it grows, the Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar becomes either yellow or green, depending on whether it is eating the leaves or flower buds of the host plant! Each caterpillar molts about 4 times before pupating and becoming a chrysalis.
When the caterpillar is ready for this final stage, it will spin tiny silk threads from which is hangs. For camouflage, the chrysalis hardens to the shape of a leaf of the host plant!
In about 9-11 days, your butterfly will be ready to emerge!
Normally, most butterflies emerge early in the morning, just as the sun is coming up. Its wings will be very small and crumpled, but as the butterfly hangs to dry, it pumps fluid through tiny veins, into its wings. In a few hours, its wings will be hardened and dry and the butterfly will be ready to take flight.
Other Sulphur Butterflies that you will find on your Partridge Pea, Senna and Clover host plants include: Orange Barred Sulphur, Little Yellow, Clouded Sulphur, Sleepy Orange Butterfly and Southern Dogface.
Favorite butterfly nectar plants include Dandelion, Milkweed, Tall verbena, Coneflowers, Lantana, Zinnia, Butterfly bush & Cosmos.
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What to Look for in Your Sulphur Garden
1. Sulphur Butterflies will find your host plants and lay tiny eggs.
Sulphur Egg
2. Within a few days the eggs will hatch, and your caterpillars will start happily munching away.
Caterpillar
3. Next, your chubby little caterpillars will form a chrysalis.
Chrysalis
4. Beautiful butterflies will emerge to lay eggs and begin the amazing butterfly lifecycle again! 
Mature Butterfly
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Host Plants
Wild Senna
Cassia Hebecarpa
Partridge Pea
Cassia Fasciculata
White Clover
Trifolium Repens
