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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Skippers
  7. Silverdrops
  8. Silver-spotted Skipper
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What supports Silver-spotted Skipper

1,600 native plants
support it in the US
239 caterpillar hosts 1,361 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

239 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia
  • American Groundnut Apios americana
  • American Wisteria Wisteria frutescens
  • California False Indigo Amorpha californica
  • American Hog-peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata
  • Wild Licorice Glycyrrhiza lepidota
  • Marsh Pea Lathyrus palustris
  • Panicled Ticktrefoil Desmodium paniculatum
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Nectar plants All

1,361 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma
  • Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea
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