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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Buckeyes
  8. Northern Tropical Buckeye
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What supports Northern Tropical Buckeye

11 native plants
support it in the US
8 caterpillar hosts 3 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

8 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Mangrove Avicennia germinans
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • Purple Stemodia Stemodia durantifolia
  • Carolina Ruellia Ruellia caroliniensis on wild petunias
  • Blue Porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis on porterweed
  • Ciliate Ruellia Ruellia ciliosa on wild petunias
  • Bushy Lippia Lippia alba on Lippia
  • Southern Fogfruit Lippia stoechadifolia on Lippia

Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea
  • Everglades Squarestem Melanthera angustifolia

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