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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Diadems & Eggflies
  8. Danaid Eggfly
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What supports Danaid Eggfly

47 native plants
support it in the US
19 caterpillar hosts 28 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

19 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Artillery Plant Pilea microphylla
  • Shaggy Portulaca Portulaca pilosa on purslanes
  • Redstem Purslane Portulaca rubricaulis on purslanes
  • Mauve Abutilon hulseanum on globe-mallows
  • Coastal Indian Mallow Abutilon permolle on globe-mallows
  • Swamp Rose Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos on hibiscuses
  • American Plantain Plantago rugelii on plantain
  • Dwarf Plantain Plantago virginica on plantain
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Siam Weed Chromolaena odorata
  • Blue Porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Sleepy Morning Waltheria indica
  • Spiny Fiddlewood Citharexylum spinosum
  • Texas Lantana Lantana urticoides on lantanas
  • Button Sage Lantana involucrata on lantanas
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