Where know, all species are associated with fungi, which is the preferred larval food.

Here the main issue appears to be re-establishing the native plant "silver bush lupine", whose leaves are the larval food of these butterflies.

The female lays from one to 100 tiny eggs at a time in or on the larval food.

The puffball is used by various species of scuttle flies (family Phoridae) as larval food.

Specimens have been reared from fungi, which is suspected to the preferred larval food.

For several Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), lupins are an important larval food.

There are some cases where oligoleges collect their host plant's pollen as larval food, but for various reasons rarely or never actually pollinate the flowers.

Its leaves and flower buds are one of the main larval foods of the holly blue butterfly.

The jacket plum is recorded as larval food of the following butterflies of southern Africa:

Once the cell is capped, the adult female mite hides for five days inside the larval food near the bottom of the cell.