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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Proteas, Lotuses, Planes, and Allies
  6. Lotus Family
  7. Lotuses
  8. American Lotus
  9. Supports

What American Lotus supports

38 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 32 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Lotus Borer Moth Ostrinia penitalis
  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua

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 lotuses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
  • Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
  • Black-legged Meadow Katydid Orchelimum nigripes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon splendens
  • Margined Leatherwing Beetle Chauliognathus marginatus
  • Long-legged Fly Condylostylus longicornis
  • Doubled Ceratina Ceratina dupla
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
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