Scientific Note: Insects associated with Guettarda scabra in Everglades National Park, Florida

Author:

Suzanne Koptur

Additional Authors:

Published:

May 2020

Keywords:

butterflies, floral visitors, flower flies, herbivores, moths, pine rocklands, pollinators, velvetseed

Guettarda scabra leaves are consumed by a variety of moth caterpillars, some with adults that visit the flowers and may serve as pollinators. Flower-opening is hastened by eager flower-flies, and during the night the flowers are visited by hawk moths (Sphingidae); in the morning they are visited by butterflies.