Bug Life Cycles

Edith Smith, with her husband Stephen, owns Shady Oak Butterfly Farm, near Gainesville, Florida, which raises and sells butterfly pupae.  She and Stephen also travel to do presentations about butterflies, their lives, their hostplants, and the habitats they need to survive.

Here are the life cycles she's contributed:

Junonia coenia - Common Buckeye

Eumaeus atala - Atala

Eurema daira - Barred Yellow

Atlides halesus - Great Purple Hairstreak

Hemiargus ceraunus - Ceraunus Blue

Ascia monuste - Great Southern White

Pyrgus oileus - Tropical Checkered Skipper

Phoebis sennae - Cloudless Sulphur

Papilio polyxenes - Black Swallowtail

Papilio crestophontes - Giant Swallowtail

Agraulis vanillae - Gulf Fritillary

Danaus plexippus - Monarch

Polygonia interrogationis - Question Mark

Vanessa atalanta - Red Admiral

Papilio glaucus - Tiger Swallowtail

Limenitis archippus - Viceroy

Vanessa virginiensis - American Lady

Battus polydamas - Polydamas Swallowtail

Paonias excaecatus - Blinded Sphinx

Automeris io - Io Moth

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