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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Acanthus Family
  7. Grey or White Mangrove
  8. Black Mangrove
  9. Supports

What Black Mangrove supports

36 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 6 food 27 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Northern Tropical Buckeye Junonia zonalis
  • False-windowed Sphinx Madoryx pseudothyreus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Florida Keys' Scrub Cicada Diceroprocta biconica
  • Gulf Saltmarsh Cicada Diceroprocta bequaerti
  • Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
  • White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala
  • Atlantic Mangrove Ghost Crab Ucides cordatus
  • Melanoliarus viequensis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Hunter's Little Paper Wasp Polistes dorsalis
  • Zimmerman's Mud-dauber Wasp Chalybion zimmermanni
  • Southern Paper Wasp Polistes bellicosus
  • Ashmead's Acrobat Ant Crematogaster ashmeadi
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium
  • Guinea Paper Wasp Polistes exclamans
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Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Southeastern Myotis Myotis austroriparius

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