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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Grass Moths
  7. Ostrinia
  8. Ostrinia nubilalis
  9. European Corn Borer Moth
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What supports European Corn Borer Moth

22 native plants
support it in the US
18 caterpillar hosts 4 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

18 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Upland Cotton Gossypium hirsutum
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Witch Grass Panicum capillare keystone
  • Pearl Millet Cenchrus americanus
  • Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca keystone
  • Carolina Horsenettle Solanum carolinense
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Redroot Amaranth Amaranthus retroflexus
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • White Meadowsweet Spiraea alba
  • Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum

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