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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. Balsam Ragwort
  9. Supports

What Balsam Ragwort supports

38 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Phyllocnistis insignis on american groundsels and ragworts

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

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
  • Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Papilio canadensis
  • Eight-spotted Forester Moth Alypia octomaculata
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