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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Southern Checkerbloom
  9. Supports

What Southern Checkerbloom supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 1 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on checkerblooms
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus ruralis on checkerblooms
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on checkerblooms
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on checkerblooms

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea on checkerblooms
  • Black-fronted Turret Bee Diadasia nigrifrons Pollen specialist on Sidalcea on checkerblooms

Plant eaters All

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

  • Acmaeodera hepburnii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Wide-striped Sweat Bee Halictus farinosus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus
  • Neochelostoma
  • White Checkered-Skipper Burnsius albezens
  • Olive-shaded Bird-dropping Moth Ponometia candefacta
  • Melissa Blue Plebejus melissa
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