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/
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/
Catch Report - Braughing 03/07/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapWell it rained most of the night again, with on and off drizzle. On inspection of the trap it looks quite dry luckily, but then just as I decided to open the trap, the heavens opened and most of it flew off! it's not the first time thats happened to me I can tell you!Nevertheless there was plenty of interest including a Peach Blossom, Clepsis consimilana, Catoptria falsella and a single Clay.Catch Report - Braughing 03/07/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Clay [NFY]1x Common Emerald [NFY]1x Peach Blossom1x Ghost Moth 6x Barred Straw2x Heart & Dart2x Heart & Club2x Dark Arches3x Beautiful Hook-tip3x Brown Rustic2x Yellow Shell8x Double Square-spot2x Setaceous Hebrew Character2x Privet Hawk-moth1x Common Footman4x Mottled Rustic1x Turnip Moth4x Willow Beauty2x Uncertain5x Large Yellow Underwing9x Snout2x Light Arches1x Straw Dot3x Minor sp.1x Rustic Shoulder-knot1x Peppered Moth2x Flame1x Buff-tip2x Blood-vein5x Ingrailed Clay1x Buff Ermine1x Common Pug1x Pale Oak Beauty2x Mottled Beauty4x Burnished Brass2x Common Wainscot Micro Moths1x Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana [NFY]1x Clepsis consimilana [NFY]1x Catoptria falsella [NFY]2x Cochylis hybridella4x Dipleurina lacustrata2x Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana2x Chrysoteuchia culmella1x Eucosma cana 1x Udea olivalis1x Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana2x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata1x Bramble Shoot Moth Epiblema uddmanniana3x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella2x Scoparia sp. 2x Celypha striana2x Celypha lacunana