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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Scentless Plant Bugs
  7. Boxelder Bugs
  8. Eastern Boxelder Bug
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What supports Eastern Boxelder Bug

186 native plants
support it in the US
98 food 88 flowers

Food plants All

98 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Box Elder Acer negundo
  • Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum
  • Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  • Goodding's Willow Salix gooddingii keystone
  • Red Maple Acer rubrum on maples
  • Black Cherry Prunus serotina keystone on plums, cherries, and allies
  • Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca keystone on strawberries
  • Chokecherry Prunus virginiana keystone on plums, cherries, and allies
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Heath Aster Symphyotrichum ericoides keystone
  • Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia keystone
  • Eastern Black Walnut Juglans nigra
  • American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana
  • Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin
  • Wingstem Verbesina alternifolia
  • Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea
  • Flat-topped Goldenrod Euthamia graminifolia
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