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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Nettles and Allies
  7. Wood Nettles
  8. Wood Nettle
  9. Supports

What Wood Nettle supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 hosts 20 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell Aglais milberti
  • Hologram Moth Diachrysia balluca
  • Eastern Comma Polygonia comma
  • Hop Vine Snout Hypena humuli
  • Large Snout Hypena edictalis on wood nettles

Hosted animals All

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

  • Wood Nettle Gall Midge Dasineura investita
  • Neolasioptera laporteae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Sumitrosis rosea
  • Banded Tussock Moth Halysidota tessellaris
  • Acanthocephala terminalis
  • Two-lined Spittlebug Prosapia bicincta
  • Spined Micrathena Micrathena gracilis
  • Versute Sharpshooter Graphocephala versuta
  • Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle Psyllobora vigintimaculata
  • Ferruginous Carpenter Ant Camponotus chromaiodes
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