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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Dart, Sallow, and Cutworm Moths and Allies
  7. Alypia
  8. Eight-spotted Forester Moth
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What supports Eight-spotted Forester Moth

225 native plants
support it in the US
18 caterpillar hosts 207 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

18 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia keystone
  • Canyon Wild Grape Vitis arizonica keystone
  • Muscadine Vitis rotundifolia keystone
  • Riverbank Grape Vitis riparia keystone on grapevines
  • Thicket Creeper Parthenocissus inserta keystone on virgin creepers
  • Mustang Grape Vitis mustangensis keystone on grapevines
  • Summer Grape Vitis aestivalis keystone on grapevines
  • Frost Grape Vitis vulpina keystone on grapevines
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Smooth Sumac Rhus glabra
  • Common Ninebark Physocarpus opulifolius
  • Smooth Blackberry Rubus canadensis
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
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