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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Sidas
  8. Spreading Sida
  9. Supports

What Spreading Sida supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana on sidas
  • Straight-lined Mallow Moth Bagisara rectifascia on sidas
  • Okra Leafworm Moth Anomis illita on sidas

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Mallow Leaf Miner Calycomyza malvae on sidas

Plant eaters All

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

  • Poecilanthrax lucifer

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
  • Little Yellow Eurema lisa
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole
  • Barred Yellow Eurema daira
  • Tepanec Long-horned Bee Melissodes tepaneca on sidas
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on sidas
  • White Peacock Anartia jatrophae on sidas
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