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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Spiderworts and Allies
  6. Spiderworts
  7. Dayflowers
  8. Whitemouth Dayflower
  9. Supports

What Whitemouth Dayflower supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 14 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mouralia tinctoides on dayflowers

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Liriomyza commelinae

Plant eaters All

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

  • Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on dayflowers
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on dayflowers
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on dayflowers

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata
  • Black Stink Bug Proxys punctulatus
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