effective camouflage in its pine rockland habitat in South Florida. This butterfly, whose only known host plant is the pineland croton, reaches adult sizes of 2.75 to 3 inches and displays sexual ...

If you want to support these butterflies, one easy way is to plant flowers they ... Reader Becky Litke of Panama City, Florida had luck attracting this butterfly (above) and other pollinators ...

as do the fat striped caterpillars that feast on milkweed plants. But an alarming decline in state monarch butterfly populations exposes a larger trend: Florida’s wildlife is disappearing.