Bloom Native gardener's
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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Ants
  7. Wood, Mound, and Field Ants
  8. Fusca-group Wood Ants
  9. Silky Field Ant
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What supports Silky Field Ant

12 native plants
support it in the US
2 food 10 flowers

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2 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Canadian Lousewort Pedicularis canadensis
  • Flowering Spurge Euphorbia corollata

Nectar plants All

10 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
  • Winterberry Holly Ilex verticillata
  • Wingstem Verbesina alternifolia
  • Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod Solidago rugosa keystone
  • Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
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