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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Lythrum Family
  7. Crape-myrtles
  8. Crape-myrtle
  9. Supports

What Crape-myrtle supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 10 food 29 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Abbot's Bagworm Moth Oiketicus abbotii

Plant eaters All

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

  • Crapemyrtle Aphid Sarucallis kahawaluokalani
  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis
  • Crape Myrtle Bark Scale Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
  • Black-winged Sharpshooter Oncometopia nigricans
  • Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
  • Broad-headed Sharpshooter Oncometopia orbona
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Metric Paper Wasp Polistes metricus
  • Ladybird Parasitoid Wasp Dinocampus coccinellae
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
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