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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
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What supports Milkweed Assassin Bug

52 native plants
support it in the US
6 food 46 flowers

Food plants All

6 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
  • Smooth Blackberry Rubus canadensis
  • Florida Hartwrightia Hartwrightia floridana
  • Wild Poinsettia Euphorbia cyathophora
  • Northern Seaside Goldenrod Solidago sempervirens keystone
  • Alamo Vine Distimake dissectus

Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Scorpion's-tail Heliotropium angiospermum
  • Marsh Rattlesnake Master Eryngium aquaticum
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Tall Goldenrod Solidago altissima keystone
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Groundsel Tree Baccharis halimifolia
  • Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
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