He flew out of her pocket and lit on one of the flowers Meaghan held in her hand. She laughed and gently stroked the gossamer wings of her butterfly friend. Her short stories have also appeared online at New Works Review and EWGPresents. In The Butterfly Museum at Bedtime-Story. Butterflies need both nectar plants as well as host plants.
Nectar plants are a food source for the adult butterflies.
Hummingbirds like nectar as well as Butterflies do. Butterflies prefer a flatter flower than hummingbirds do, however, since Butterflies don't have the long bill of Hummingbirds which allows to to reach deep inside the flower. A host plant is one that the adult butterflies will lay eggs on. The hungry baby caterpillars eat the leaves of these plants. That helps them grow quickly so they can form a cocoon and develop into a butterfly.