Silver-washed Fritillary paphia 10 larvae

Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia

Post-hibernation larvae, feeding well and growing, to pupate in late spring and produce butterflies this season.

Feed on Violet or Pansy leaves – best kept on potted food.  Make sure that, if you buy potted foodplant, there had been no insecticide used  to produce them!

Keep hibernating larvae in leaf litter, in a plastic box in a very cool place for the winter. They wake in January/February and then need to be enclosed inside a sleeve, on potted violet.