Tropical Milkweed Butterfly. Importance as a caterpillar food source. Like many milkweeds tropical milkweed is a food plant for monarch caterpillars.
Tropical milkweed monarch butterfly favorite. Danainae is a subfamily of the family nymphalidae the brush footed butterflies it includes the daniadae or milkweed butterflies who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae caterpillars feed as well as the clearwing butterflies and the tellervini. This milkweed is a perennial in the south and an annual in the north.
The larvae feed on carica papaya ficus carica.
The blooms occur on upright stems clad with lance shaped fresh. The larvae feed on carica papaya ficus carica. The wingspan is about 95 108 mm. Some 300 species of danainae exist worldwide.