What Red Mangrove supports

36 native animals
supported in the US

9 caterpillars 1 hosts 22 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Great Southern White Ascia monuste
• Large Orange Sulphur Phoebis agarithe
• Packard's White Slug Moth Alarodia slossoniae
• Io Moth Automeris io
• Spiny Oak-slug Moth Euclea delphinii
• Abbot's Bagworm Moth Oiketicus abbotii
• Locust Twig Borer Moth Ecdytolopha insiticiana
• Lintner's Gluphisia Moth Gluphisia lintneri

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Hosted animals All

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

• Australian Pine Borer Chrysobothris tranquebarica

Plant eaters All

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

• Mangrove Tree Crab Aratus pisonii
• Ashmead's Acrobat Ant Crematogaster ashmeadi
• Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
• Florida Flattened Tree Ant Xenomyrmex floridanus
• Tricorynus
• Florida Carpenter Ant Camponotus floridanus
• Styloleptus biustus
• Florida Dampwood Termite Neotermes castaneus

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Flower visitors All

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

• Mangrove Skipper Phocides batabano
• Monarch Danaus plexippus
• Malachite Siproeta stelenes
• Double-banded Plushback Palpada agrorum