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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Flies
  6. Soldier Flies
  7. Hermetia
  8. Black Soldier Fly
  9. Supported by
  10. Nectar plants

Nectar plants for Black Soldier Fly

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

  • Eastern Black Walnut Juglans nigra 1 record
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone 1 record
  • False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides 1 record
  • Eastern Black Nightshade Solanum emulans 1 record
  • Mexican Buckeye Ungnadia speciosa 1 record
  • Seacliff Wild Buckwheat Eriogonum parvifolium 1 record
  • Upland Cotton Gossypium hirsutum 1 record

Not native to the US

2 plants, most recorded first.

  • Weeping Fig Ficus benjamina 1 record · introduced
  • Giant Crepe-myrtle Lagerstroemia speciosa 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

4 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Common Climbing Aloe Aloiampelos ciliaris 1 record
  • Sages Salvia 1 record · genus
  • Mulberries Morus 1 record · genus
  • Black-eyed Susans and Coneflowers Rudbeckia 1 record · genus

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