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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. Scarce and Impressive Daggers
  9. Impressive Dagger
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What supports Impressive Dagger

229 native plants
support it in the US
214 caterpillar hosts 15 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

214 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Cherry Prunus serotina keystone
  • American Beech Fagus grandifolia
  • Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides
  • American Witch-hazel Hamamelis virginiana
  • Paper Birch Betula papyrifera keystone
  • Grey Alder Alnus incana
  • Bigtooth Aspen Populus grandidentata
  • Bog Myrtle Myrica gale
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
  • Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida on dogwoods
  • Canadian Bunchberry Cornus canadensis keystone on dogwoods
  • Roughleaf Dogwood Cornus drummondii on dogwoods
  • Alternate-leaved Dogwood Cornus alternifolia on dogwoods
  • Gray Dogwood Cornus racemosa on dogwoods
  • Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum on dogwoods
  • Western Bunchberry Cornus unalaschkensis keystone on dogwoods
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