The majestic Monarch Butterfly has a very specific taste for special plants. While as an adult butterfly it will feed at a number of flowers, its caterpillars need plants from the milkweed family to eat. In Michigan we have a number of types of milkweed - common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and orange milkweed or "butterfly weed", pictured above. The photo directly below shows an adult Monarch resting on a common milkweed leaf and the one below that shows a Monarch probing the flowers of a butterfly weed plant.
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