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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Violets and Allies
  7. Violets
  8. Eastern American Blue Violets
  9. Florida Violet
  10. Supports

What Florida Violet supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 2 hosts 2 food 22 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Beggar Moth Eubaphe mendica on violets
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on violets

Hosted animals All

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

  • Liriomyza violivora on violets
  • Violet Leafmining Sawfly Nefusa ambigua on violets

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on violets
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on violets

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on eastern american blue violets
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on violets
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on violets
  • Narrow-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus fasciatus on violets
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta on violets
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on violets
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae on violets
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe on violets
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