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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Sphinx Moths
  7. Deidamia
  8. Lettered Sphinx
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What supports Lettered Sphinx

25 native plants
support it in the US
19 caterpillar hosts 6 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

19 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia keystone
  • Sourwood Oxydendrum arboreum
  • Riverbank Grape Vitis riparia keystone on grapevines
  • Muscadine Vitis rotundifolia keystone on grapevines
  • Mustang Grape Vitis mustangensis keystone on grapevines
  • Summer Grape Vitis aestivalis keystone on grapevines
  • Frost Grape Vitis vulpina keystone on grapevines
  • Fox Grape Vitis labrusca keystone on grapevines
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Nectar plants All

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

  • American Plum Prunus americana keystone
  • Largefruit Sand Verbena Abronia macrocarpa
  • Red Columbine Aquilegia canadensis on columbines
  • Blue Columbine Aquilegia coerulea on columbines
  • Golden Columbine Aquilegia chrysantha on columbines
  • Longspur Columbine Aquilegia longissima on columbines

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