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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
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  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. Common Swallowtails
  8. Tiger Swallowtails and Allies
  9. Western Tiger Swallowtail
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What supports Western Tiger Swallowtail

747 native plants
support it in the US
107 caterpillar hosts 640 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

107 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides
  • Scouler's Willow Salix scouleriana keystone
  • Arroyo Willow Salix lasiolepis keystone
  • Narrowleaf Cottonwood Populus angustifolia
  • Paper Birch Betula papyrifera keystone
  • Black Cottonwood Populus trichocarpa
  • Western Sycamore Platanus racemosa
  • Balsam Poplar Populus balsamifera
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Nectar plants All

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

  • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
  • Showy Milkweed Asclepias speciosa
  • Narrowleaf Milkweed Asclepias fascicularis
  • Western Wallflower Erysimum capitatum
  • Western Columbine Aquilegia formosa
  • Cobwebby Thistle Cirsium occidentale
  • Canada Mint Mentha canadensis
  • Coyote Mint Monardella villosa
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