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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Spiderworts and Allies
  6. Spiderworts
  7. Spiderworts
  8. Tradescantia virginiana
  9. Virginia Spiderwort
  10. Supports

What Virginia Spiderwort supports

66 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 3 food 60 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Azalea Sphinx Darapsa choerilus
  • Sweet Potato Armyworm Moth Spodoptera dolichos
  • Mouralia tinctoides on spiderworts

Plant eaters All

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

  • Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on spiderworts
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris on spiderworts

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Andrena personata
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata
  • Long-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes americanus
  • Cresson's Mining Bee Andrena cressonii
  • Panurginus
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