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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Skippers
  7. Proteides
  8. Mercurial Skipper
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What supports Mercurial Skipper

6 native plants
support it in the US
4 caterpillar hosts 2 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

4 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Wild Cowpea Vigna luteola on cowpea
  • Least Snoutbean Rhynchosia minima on snoutbeans
  • Texas Snoutbean Rhynchosia senna on snoutbeans
  • Broad-leaf Snoutbean Rhynchosia latifolia on snoutbeans

Nectar plants All

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

  • Siam Weed Chromolaena odorata
  • Beach Naupaka Scaevola taccada

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