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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Globe-mallows
  8. Velvetleaf
  9. Supports

What Velvetleaf supports

43 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 32 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana
  • Yellow Scallop Moth Anomis erosa
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris

Hosted animals All

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

  • Mallow Leaf Miner Calycomyza malvae

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Walsh's Anthophora Anthophora walshii
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Red-banded Leafhopper Graphocephala coccinea
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
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