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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Commas
  8. Eastern Comma
  9. Supported by
  10. Caterpillar hosts

Caterpillar hosts for Eastern Comma

15 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • False Nettle Boehmeria cylindrica 5 records
  • Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis 3 records
  • Paper Birch Betula papyrifera keystone 2 records
  • Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis 2 records
  • American Elm Ulmus americana 1 record
  • Slender Stinging Nettle Urtica gracilis 1 record
  • Cedar Elm Ulmus crassifolia 4 records on elms
  • Winged Elm Ulmus alata 4 records on elms
  • Slippery Elm Ulmus rubra 4 records on elms
  • Rock Elm Ulmus thomasii 4 records on elms
  • September Elm Ulmus serotina 4 records on elms
  • Heartleaf Nettle Urtica chamaedryoides 2 records on nettles
  • Western Hop Humulus neomexicanus 2 records on hop
  • American Hops Humulus americanus 2 records on hop
  • Midwestern Hops Humulus pubescens 2 records on hop

Not native to the US

2 plants, most recorded first.

  • Great Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica 1 record · introduced
  • Japanese Hops Humulus scandens 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

1 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Common Hops Humulus lupulus 1 record

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