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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Poppy Family
  7. Prickly Poppies
  8. Mexican Prickly Poppy
  9. Supports

What Mexican Prickly Poppy supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Platynota labiosana
  • Platynota nigrocervina on prickly poppies

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Poey's Furrow Bee Halictus poeyi
  • Epaulette Metallic Sweat Bee Lasioglossum tegulare
  • Kern's Flower Scarab Euphoria kernii on prickly poppies
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica on prickly poppies
  • Texas Flower Scarab Trichiotinus texanus on prickly poppies

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