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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Sandhill Thistle
  9. Supports
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Sandhill Thistle

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

  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella 1 record
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 5 records on plume thistles
  • Common Looper Moth Autographa precationis 4 records on plume thistles
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis 3 records on plume thistles
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea 3 records on plume thistles
  • Parthenice Tiger Moth Apantesis parthenice 3 records on plume thistles
  • Artichoke Plume Moth Platyptilia carduidactylus 3 records on plume thistles
  • Little Metalmark Calephelis virginiensis 3 records on plume thistles
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos 2 records on plume thistles
  • Delaware Skipper Anatrytone logan 1 record on plume thistles
  • Celery Looper Moth Anagrapha falcifera 1 record on plume thistles
  • Mottled Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta subsequalis 1 record on plume thistles
  • Burdock Stem Borer Moth Papaipema cataphracta 1 record on plume thistles
  • Ironweed Stem Borer Moth Papaipema cerussata 1 record on plume thistles
  • Yellow-banded Wasp Moth Syntomeida ipomoeae 1 record on plume thistles

Nativity unknown

1 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Variegated Cutworm Moth Peridroma saucia 1 record on plume thistles

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