PIERIDAE / WHITES, DAINTIES & SULPHURS Colour Plates
PIERIDAE Host Plants
Batis maritima / Saltwort
Bidens alba radiata / Spanish Needles
Capparis cynophallophara / Head Ache Bush
Capparis flexuosa / Raw bone
Desmodium triflorum / Ticktrefoil
Pithocellobium unguis-cati / Catclaw Blackbead
Senna ligustrina / Privet, Sensitive Plant
Senna occidentalis / Dandelion; Septic Weed
Stylosanthes hamata / Lucy Julia
Aeshynomene sp., Mimosa pudica / Shame-face Sensitive Plant
Meliococcus bijugatus / Ginep
PIERIDAE Nectar Plants
Ageratum conyzoides / Billy Goat Weed
Antigonon leptopus / Carollila; Carolita
Bauhinia divaricata / Bull Hoof
Caesalpinia pulcherrima< / Pride of Barbados
Cassia alata / Candlestick bush
Cordia sebestena var. caymanensis / Cordia; Broad Leaf
Delonix regia / Poinciana, Flamboyant Tree
Hibiscus
Ixora
Jatropha
Lantana aculeata / Lantana
Pithocellobium unguis-cati / Catclaw Blackbead
Tournefortia sp. will also attract them
HABITAT
You will also find these butterflies around horses and cow dug, mud puddles as well
