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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Nodding Fescue
  9. Supports

What Nodding Fescue supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 7 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Indian Skipper Hesperia sassacus
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens on fescues
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella on fescues
  • Chryxus Arctic Oeneis chryxus on fescues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on fescues
  • Javesella pellucida on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii on fescues
  • Leafhopper Diplocolenus abdominalis on fescues
  • Muirodelphax arvensis on fescues

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