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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Amaryllis, Onions, and Allies
  7. Onions
  8. Lophioprason
  9. Nodding Onion
  10. Supports

What Nodding Onion supports

138 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 130 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera ornithogalli
  • Leek Moth Acrolepiopsis assectella on onions

Hosted animals All

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

  • Onion Leafminer Phytomyza gymnostoma on onions

Plant eaters All

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

  • Four-toothed Mason Wasp Monobia quadridens
  • Potter Wasp Parancistrocerus fulvipes
  • Onion Aphid Neotoxoptera formosana on onions
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna on onions
  • Weevil Otiorhynchus porcatus on onions

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Heriades cressoni Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Senecio, Ericameria and 4 more
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Melissa Blue Plebejus melissa
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Carinate Armored-Resin Bee Heriades carinata
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