The gorgeous, graceful zebra longwing butterfly has laid an incredible amount of eggs on the maypop passion vine lately. In every photograph you can see the yellow eggs that she is leaving behind. Although she will lay one at a time, I typically find a cluster of them in the same location on the new growth of the plant, or the trendrils. I love spotting the caterpillars in the garden, as they are white with black spots and spikes.

If you have visited my page before, you know that the zebra longwing butterfly is capable of laying eggs for many generations each year.

The zebra longwing butterfly was officially designated as the state butterfly for Florida in 1996.