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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Flies
  6. Hover Flies
  7. Bromeliad Flies
  8. Copestylum violaceum
  9. Purple Bromeliad Fly
  10. Supported by

What supports Purple Bromeliad Fly

275 native plants
support it in the US
104 food 171 flowers

Food plants All

104 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Common Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Cowpen Daisy Verbesina encelioides
  • Firewheel Gaillardia pulchella
  • Lyre-leaf Greeneyes Berlandiera lyrata
  • Fendler's Ceanothus Ceanothus fendleri
  • Catclaw Acacia Senegalia greggii
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Nectar plants All

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

  • California Brittlebush Encelia californica
  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia
  • Common Madia Madia elegans
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Desert Broom Baccharis sarothroides
  • Brittlebush Encelia farinosa
  • Tornleaf Goldeneye Bahiopsis laciniata
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