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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Flies
  6. Hover Flies
  7. Bromeliad Flies
  8. Copestylum violaceum
  9. Mexican Cactus Fly
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What supports Mexican Cactus Fly

210 native plants
support it in the US
13 food 197 flowers

Food plants All

13 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Water Smartweed Persicaria amphibia
  • Hollyleaf Cherry Prunus ilicifolia keystone
  • Velvety Goldenrod Solidago velutina keystone
  • Purple Nightshade Solanum xanti
  • Narrowleaf Goldenbush Ericameria linearifolia
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • California Brittlebush Encelia californica
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Cowpen Daisy Verbesina encelioides
  • Desert Broom Baccharis sarothroides
  • Common Madia Madia elegans
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