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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Begonias, Gourds, and Allies
  6. Gourd Family
  7. Man-roots
  8. Coastal Manroot
  9. Supports

What Coastal Manroot supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Vestal Tiger Moth Spilosoma vestalis
  • Clepsis fucana

Plant eaters All

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

  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis on man-roots
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on man-roots
  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria on man-roots

Flower visitors All

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

  • Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes
  • Ocean Spray Fairy Moth Adela septentrionella
  • Titus's Sweat Bee Lasioglossum titusi
  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Johnson's Jumping Spider Phidippus johnsoni
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