gardening friends. Of primary interest to gardeners is the passionflower's connection with two beautiful Florida butterflies, the Gulf Fritillary and the Zebra Longwing. The larval stages (caterpillars) of these two butterflies feed on the foliage of passionflower vines which they need to complete their life cycle.
Some butterflies visit Passiflora to drink nectar from the flowers and some also may eat the pollen, in doing so they may rarely also pollinate the flowers.
Passion vines are a favorite for butterflies; in fact this plant is both a nectar and host plant to the Gulf Fritillary butterfly. The adult Fritillary will feed on the flower nectar, and then will lay eggs on the plant. Eggs will hatch in to tiny caterpillars that will eat the leaves.. . . . .364011236611!]0000000000000009783314144558!]
