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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Bushwillow Family
  7. A Type of Mangrove
  8. Green Buttonwood
  9. Supports

What Green Buttonwood supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 3 hosts 2 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Io Moth Automeris io
  • Clavipes Sphinx Aellopos clavipes
  • Three-parted Epiblema Moth Epiblema tripartitana on a type of mangrove

Hosted animals All

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

  • Chrysobothris chrysoela
  • Australian Pine Borer Chrysobothris tranquebarica
  • Buttonwood Flea Beetle Chaetocnema brunnescens

Plant eaters All

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

  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis
  • Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

Flower visitors All

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

  • Mangrove Skipper Phocides batabano
  • Dark Flower Scarab Euphoria sepulcralis
  • Florida Carpenter Ant Camponotus floridanus
  • Many-banded Daggerwing Marpesia chiron
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on a type of mangrove
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on a type of mangrove
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus on a type of mangrove

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