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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Paspalum
  8. Bahia Grass
  9. Supports

What Bahia Grass supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 4 food 5 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Small Mocis Moth Mocis latipes
  • Trapeze Moth Marasmia trapezalis

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
  • Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
  • Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
  • Delphacid Planthopper Sogatella kolophon

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon splendens
  • Metric Paper Wasp Polistes metricus
  • Phymata mystica

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Paromius longulus

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