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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Waxy Checkerbloom
  9. Supports

What Waxy Checkerbloom supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 10 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus ruralis on checkerblooms
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on checkerblooms

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea on checkerblooms
  • Black-fronted Turret Bee Diadasia nigrifrons Pollen specialist on Sidalcea on checkerblooms

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus flavidus
  • Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on checkerblooms
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus on checkerblooms
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus on checkerblooms
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