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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Groundsels and Ragworts
  8. Golden Ragwort
  9. Supports

What Golden Ragwort supports

61 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 1 food 57 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Phyllocnistis insignis

Specialist bees All

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

  • Andrena gardineri Pollen specialist on Packera, Senecio and Gutierrezia on american groundsels and ragworts

Hosted animals All

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

  • Phyllotrox ferrugineus on american groundsels and ragworts

Plant eaters All

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

  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • American Copper Lycaena hypophlaeas
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Georgia Mason Bee Osmia georgica
  • White-crossed Seed Bug Neacoryphus bicrucis
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