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  8. Alligator Flag
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What Alligator Flag supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 food 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Brazilian Skipper Calpodes ethlius
  • Fire-flag Plume Moth Sphenarches anisodactylus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

Flower visitors All

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

  • Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
  • Worthy Longhorn Florilegus condignus Pollen specialist on Pontederia
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri
  • Namacus annulicornis
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus

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