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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Coffees, Bedstraws, and Allies
  7. Bedstraws
  8. Galium
  9. Heath Bedstraw
  10. Supports

What Heath Bedstraw supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 5 food 10 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata
  • Bedstraw Hawkmoth Hyles gallii
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • White-banded Carpet Moth Spargania luctuata
  • Red Carpet Xanthorhoe decoloraria

Plant eaters All

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

  • Fleahopper Halticus apterus
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Plant Bug Polymerus unifasciatus
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
  • Common Brown Click Beetle Athous haemorrhoidalis
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
  • Orange-bearded Bluebottle Fly Calliphora vomitoria
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
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