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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Dogbanes and Milkweeds
  7. Giant Milkweeds
  8. Giant Milkweed
  9. Supports

What Giant Milkweed supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

3 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Soldier Danaus eresimus

Flower visitors All

6 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Hunter's Little Paper Wasp Polistes dorsalis
  • Large Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus
  • Spotless Lady Beetle Cycloneda sanguinea
  • Milkweed Assassin Bug Zelus longipes
  • Neotropical Red Paper Wasp Polistes canadensis
  • Lygaeid Bug Oncopeltus aulicus

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