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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. Cabbage Thistle
  9. Supports

What Cabbage Thistle supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 hosts 19 food 18 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa
  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Hadroplontus litura

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Moorland Clouded Yellow Colias palaeno
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
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