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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Checkerbloom
  9. Supports

What Checkerbloom supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 2 food 16 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus ruralis
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on checkerblooms
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on checkerblooms

Specialist bees All

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

  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea on checkerblooms
  • Black-fronted Turret Bee Diadasia nigrifrons Pollen specialist on Sidalcea on checkerblooms

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Acmaeodera connexa
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Boisduval's Blue Icaricia icarioides
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