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

What Bull Mallow supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 6 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Northern White-Skipper Heliopetes ericetorum
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
  • Aspidapion radiolus
  • Apple Tree Beetle Scolytus rugulosus
  • Timothy Thrips Chirothrips manicatus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Purplish Copper Tharsalea helloides
  • Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha

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