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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Assassin Bugs
  7. Zelus
  8. Zelus longipes
  9. Milkweed Assassin Bug

species 21,277 observations

Milkweed Assassin Bug

Zelus longipes

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

52 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Clustered Mountainmint, Smooth Blackberry, Florida Hartwrightia, Wild Poinsettia 6
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits White Beggarticks, Scorpion's-tail, Marsh Rattlesnake Master, Swamp Milkweed 46

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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