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  3. Vascular Plants
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  6. Magnolia Family
  7. Magnolias
  8. Magnolia
  9. Sweetbay Magnolia
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What Sweetbay Magnolia supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 4 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Tulip Tree Leaf Miner Phyllocnistis liriodendronella
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus
  • Palamedes Swallowtail Papilio palamedes
  • Io Moth Automeris io
  • Tulip-tree Silkmoth Callosamia angulifera
  • Tulip-tree Beauty Epimecis hortaria
  • Promethea Silkmoth Callosamia promethea
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Plant eaters All

4 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis
  • Bee-like Flower Scarab Trichiotinus piger
  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa on magnolias
  • House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus on magnolias

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Florida Leaf-footed Bug Acanthocephala femorata
  • Magnolia Leaf-footed Bug Leptoglossus fulvicornis
  • Hag Moth Phobetron pithecium
  • Slender Flower Longhorn Beetle Strangalia famelica
  • Bronze Darkling Beetle Arthromacra aenea
  • Oxycopis thoracica
  • Miserable Mining Bee Andrena miserabilis on magnolias
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