What Spatterdock supports

24 native animals
supported in the US

2 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 3 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Waterlily Owlet Homophoberia cristata
• White-tailed Diver Moth Bellura gortynoides

Specialist bees All

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

• Water-lily Sweat Bee Lasioglossum nelumbonis Pollen specialist on Nymphaea, Nuphar and Nelumbo on yellow pond-lilies

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

• Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae

Plant eaters All

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

• Florida Red-bellied Cooter Pseudemys nelsoni
• Peninsular Cooter Pseudemys peninsularis
• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

Flower visitors All

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

• Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon splendens
• Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae
• Olive-shaded Bird-dropping Moth Ponometia candefacta
• Aster Cellophane Bee Colletes compactus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Bidens and 3 more
• Euschistus ictericus
• Lyroda subita
• Donacia piscatrix
• Cherry Mining Bee Andrena pruni

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