Скачать или смотреть Butterfly Host Plants: Cassia & Sulphur Butterflies--SoCalNPG--Ep. 14

This video is about the Cloudless Sulphur butterfly and its host plant or food plant, cassia or senna. It is one in a series on butterfly host plants, or How to attract more butterflies to your backyard. Senna bicapsularis or Cassia bicapsularis is a host plant for the sulphur butterfly.

The logic is simple. Cloudless Sulphur butterfly is attracted to Senna or Cassia to lay their eggs. These hatch into caterpillars that feed on the host plant. When fully grown, they wander off and form a cocoon. Over several weeks the caterpillar transforms through metamorphosis into a sulphur butterfly.

All of this take place in your backyard and the likelihood is that you will note a greater concentration of butterflies.