What Swamp Candles supports

20 native animals
supported in the US

3 caterpillars 3 bees 14 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Loosestrife Borer Moth Papaipema lysimachiae
• Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana on loosestrifes
• Sparkling Aterpia Moth Aterpia approximana on loosestrifes

Specialist bees All

3 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

• Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife Bee Macropis nuda Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
• Macropis patellata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
• Fringed Loosestrife Oil Bee Macropis ciliata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes

Flower visitors All

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

• Lineated Metallic Sweat Bee Lasioglossum lineatulum
• Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
• Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium
• Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
• Celypha Moth Celypha cespitana
• Strangalepta Flower Longhorn Beetle Strangalepta abbreviata
• Eyed Brown Lethe eurydice
• Bristle Sweat Bee Lasioglossum imitatum

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