30 TREES & SHRUBS for BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS — Ep. 269

We've been doing a series of videos focused on attracting butterflies and moths to your garden and landscapes—and a lot of that has to do with host plants.

Though we often notice the adult butterflies and moths in our landscape, we tend to overlook their caterpillars—and it's their caterpillars that most often have very specific food needs.

Trees and shrubs play a huge role in feeding caterpillars. We'll go over our Top 30 Trees that insects use as their host plant; and then highlight specific butterflies and moths that use certain trees and shrubs to fulfill their lifecycle.

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0:00 - Introduction
2:50 - 30 top trees as insect host plants
6:56 - Butterflies and moths using Celtis
9:36 - Butterflies and moths using Quercus and Carya
11:30 - Butterflies and moths using Betula, Populus, Salix, and Prunus
15:04 - Butterflies and moths using Prunus
16:01 - Butterflies and moths using Pinus
16:16 - Butterflies and moths using citrus, Prickly ash, Ptelea
17:45 - Butterflies and moths using Cercis, Vaccinium
18:50 - Butterflies and moths using Juniperus
19:25 - Butterflies and moths using Sumac
20:42 - Butterflies and moths using spicebush and sassafras
21:40 - Wrap up

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