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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Emerald Moths and Allies
  7. Rheumaptera
  8. Spear-marked/White-banded Black Moth Complex
  9. Spear-marked Black Moth
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What supports Spear-marked Black Moth

123 native plants
support it in the US
114 caterpillar hosts 9 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

114 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Grey Alder Alnus incana
  • Paper Birch Betula papyrifera keystone
  • Yellow Birch Betula alleghaniensis keystone
  • Sweetfern Comptonia peregrina
  • Bog Myrtle Myrica gale
  • Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium keystone
  • Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum keystone
  • Dwarf Birch Betula nana keystone
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Meadowsweet Spiraea alba
  • Staghorn Sumac Rhus typhina
  • Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
  • New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
  • Alpine Sweet-vetch Hedysarum alpinum
  • Sea-watch Angelica lucida
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