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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Common Knapweed Complex
  9. Black Knapweed
  10. Supports

What Black Knapweed supports

77 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 6 food 65 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Smeathmann's Aethes Moth Aethes smeathmanniana
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Blue Shield Bug Zicrona caerulea
  • Trefoil Plant Bug Plagiognathus chrysanthemi
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Northern Amber Bumble Bee Bombus borealis
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
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