Butterflies and their host plants

[Common Mime]

Well, let's say if one butterfly which has more than one host plant, plant A and Plant B. When the female is laying egg, will she lays on one particular plant or randomly on plant A and Plant B? If she lays only on Plant A, will it because that she was bred with Plant A when she was young?:embrass:

Any ideas?

p/s: Wandering this forum and "Early Stage and Host Plant" forum to post this and decided to post it here.

[Common Mime]

Up before I offline for the weekend!;-)

[Sky Blue]

there is always a preferred host plant, so if both exists, I think that will choose the preferred host. But that really depend on species :thinking:

[Green Baron]

So far I have not observer any butts laying eggs on more than 1 species of host plant. However I think this warrant farther study and will make a good post-graduate research project :-)