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  8. Eastern Band-winged Hover Fly
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What supports Eastern Band-winged Hover Fly

116 native plants
support it in the US
5 food 111 flowers

Food plants All

5 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Shrubby Boneset Ageratina havanensis
  • Silverleaf Nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea
  • Drummond's Aster Symphyotrichum drummondii keystone
  • Palmleaf Mistflower Conoclinium dissectum

Nectar plants All

111 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • American Burnweed Erechtites hieraciifolius
  • Broad-leaved Goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis keystone
  • Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum
  • Prairie False Foxglove Agalinis heterophylla
  • Fen Grass of Parnassus Parnassia glauca
  • Canada Goldenrod Solidago canadensis keystone on goldenrods
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