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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTiger swallowtail caterpillars eat the leaves of whatever plant their egg was laid on<\/a>. Foods of choice usually include woody plants, especially trees and shrubs in the rose, magnolia, and poplar families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike some butterflies, tiger swallowtails lay eggs on multiple plants, and the ones they choose are somewhat dependent on the butterfly species and what\u2019s available in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s take a closer look at each species of tiger swallowtail and some of the common foods they eat as caterpillars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This most common type of tiger swallowtail is known for eating the distinctively-shaped leaves of the tulip tree, but they may also chow down on sweet bay magnolia, wild cherry, and even rose plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This swallowtail is perhaps one of the least picky when it comes to choosing host plants for its young. Western tiger caterpillars will eat the leaves of many plants, such as aspens, cottonwoods, willows, poplars, and alders\u2013whatever happens to be available in a given area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Canadian tiger swallowtail can be found widely throughout Canada and also parts of the U.S., such as Wisconsin and Alaska. The caterpillars eat the leaves of various trees such as black cherry, birch, and aspen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This type of tiger swallowtail<\/a> likely eats from a variety of host plants in its native deciduous forests, but the only host plant known for sure is the wild black cherry tree. Appalachian tiger swallowtails have been observed eating the leaves of this tree in captivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiger swallowtails will nectar from a variety of flowers depending on what is available to them in a given location and season. Whereas caterpillars will typically only eat the plant they hatched out on, adult butterflies enjoy nectar from many different kinds of flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the flowers they enjoy nectaring from include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiger swallowtails are not finicky when it comes to the flowers they feed on. They are not known for avoiding or disliking any particular varieties of flowers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, certain flowers are more likely to attract them<\/a> than others. If you\u2019re hoping to draw swallowtails to your yard, planting large, colorful, fragrant flowers is your best bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiger swallowtails, especially the males, also enjoy gathering at muddy puddles and the edges of ponds to drink the water, which is full of minerals. This behavior is known as puddling, and you can see a great example of it in the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, they will even feed on the sugar-water solutions in hummingbird feeders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, as you can see, tiger swallowtails enjoy many foods and will rarely turn down a meal. There are no known flowers that will repel them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiger swallowtails<\/a> eat different foods depending on where they live and the species they belong to. They will nectar from nearly any colorful, fragrant flower, and their caterpillars eat the leaves of many trees, such as tulip trees, poplars, wild cherry, aspen, willow, and cottonwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You probably know that most butterflies eat nectar from flowers; but have you ever asked yourself, what do tiger swallowtails eat? What are their favorite kinds of flowers? Are there any flowers they don\u2019t like? What plants do their caterpillars eat? Keep reading! In this article, we\u2019ll answer all of these questions. What Do Tiger … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forestwildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Eastern Tiger Swallowtail<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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What Flowers Do Tiger Swallowtails Like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What Flowers Do Tiger Swallowtails Not Like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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