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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Dart, Sallow, and Cutworm Moths and Allies
  7. Dagger Moths
  8. American and Large Gray Daggers and Allies
  9. American Dagger
  10. Supported by

What supports American Dagger

270 native plants
support it in the US
270 caterpillar hosts

Caterpillar hosts All

270 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Basswood Tilia americana
  • Box Elder Acer negundo
  • Red Maple Acer rubrum
  • Green Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
  • Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
  • Sugar Maple Acer saccharum
  • American Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana
  • American Chestnut Castanea dentata
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