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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Hackberry Butterflies
  8. Hackberry Emperor
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What supports Hackberry Emperor

25 native plants
support it in the US
7 caterpillar hosts 18 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
  • Sugar Hackberry Celtis laevigata
  • Dwarf Hackberry Celtis tenuifolia
  • Netleaf Hackberry Celtis reticulata
  • Spiny Hackberry Celtis pallida
  • Spiny Hackberry Celtis iguanaea
  • Small's Hackberry Celtis smallii on hackberries

Nectar plants All

18 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Frostweed Verbesina virginica
  • American Basketflower Plectocephalus americanus
  • Box Elder Acer negundo
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • White Oak Quercus alba keystone
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
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