What Coconut Palm supports

16 native animals
supported in the US

6 caterpillars 9 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Saddleback Caterpillar Moth Acharia stimulea
• Palm Bud Moth Atheloca subrufella
• Coconut Leafroller Omiodes blackburni
• Abbot's Bagworm Moth Oiketicus abbotii
• Palm Leaf Skeletonizer Moth Homaledra sabalella
• Tropical Tobacco Moth Setomorpha rutella

Plant eaters All

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

• Delphacid Planthopper Tagosodes cubanus
• Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus
• American Palm Cixiid Haplaxius crudus
• Florida Red Scale Chrysomphalus aonidum
• Anotia firebugia
• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
• Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
• Dictyospermum Scale Chrysomphalus dictyospermi

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Flower visitors All

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

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius