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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Tortoiseshells
  8. Milbert's Tortoiseshell
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What supports Milbert's Tortoiseshell

497 native plants
support it in the US
29 caterpillar hosts 468 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

29 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Slender Stinging Nettle Urtica gracilis
  • Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis
  • Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea on everlastings
  • Artillery Plant Pilea microphylla on clearweeds
  • Canada Clearweed Pilea pumila on clearweeds
  • Springs Clearweed Pilea fontana on clearweeds
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone on sunflowers
  • Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus tuberosus keystone on sunflowers
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Flat-topped Goldenrod Euthamia graminifolia
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • American Plum Prunus americana keystone
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
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