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  8. Slender Clearwing
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What supports Slender Clearwing

35 native plants
support it in the US
29 caterpillar hosts 6 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

29 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Sheep Laurel Kalmia angustifolia
  • Northern Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum keystone
  • Early Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium pallidum keystone
  • Lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea keystone on blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, bilberries, and allies
  • Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia on mountain-laurels
  • Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium keystone on blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, bilberries, and allies
  • Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum keystone on blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, bilberries, and allies
  • Bog Cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos keystone on blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, bilberries, and allies
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Philadelphia Fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus
  • Moss Phlox Phlox subulata
  • Chives Allium schoenoprasum
  • Early Azalea Rhododendron prinophyllum
  • Fringed Bluestar Amsonia ciliata on bluestars

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