Try growing some native Mouse Melon in with your Passion Vine. Female Longwings are the only butterflies able to digest pollen and they prefer Cucurbits. Another favorite of female Longwings are male Papaya trees. Try planting a Cassia tree somewhere sunny and you'll get Cloudless Sulfurs and Sleepy Oranges. Plant Aristolochia and you'll attract Polydamas and/or Pipevine Swallowtails. Wild Lime will attract Giant Swallowtails. Fennel and Dill attract Black Swallowtails. Breynia and Oleander will bring in diurnal moths. If you're near the coast, plant Coontie and there's a chance you could see an Atala. Try planting Bacopa or Lippia for the White Peacock. And for nectar... Pentas, Porterweed, Cestrum Diurnum, Jatropha, Tithonia, Russelia, Clerodendron and Lantana.

Clear eggs are usually duds, eggs that, for whatever reason, were infertile and didn't hatch. Zebra longwing eggs are yellow, according to my books. I've never seen ZLW eggs, so I don't know if they look like gulf frit eggs or not, probably do. ZLW cats look like gulf frit cats in the early instars, then become white, whereas gulf frits stay orange. Congratulations! Sherry

Thanks for being more specific Tom! I need to start using the Latin names as well as the common names. Jane, The one that grows wild around here is Passiflora Incarnata, purple passion vine. I'm lucky that the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville about half an hour from me has butterfly host and nectar plants for sale every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The plants offered change every week but they almost always have some variety of Passiflora (this week they have corky stemmed). Rhonda

DD and Sherry, Hope you get more visits from the Zebra longwings....they and the Gulf frits are the most frequent visitors in my yard. Make sure that you have passion vine for both. Rhonda