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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Groundsels and Ragworts
  8. New England Ragwort
  9. Supports

What New England Ragwort supports

27 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 24 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Phyllocnistis insignis on american groundsels and ragworts

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Andrena gardineri Pollen specialist on Packera, Senecio and Gutierrezia on american groundsels and ragworts

Hosted animals All

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

  • Phyllotrox ferrugineus on american groundsels and ragworts

Flower visitors All

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

  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Black-shouldered Drone Fly Eristalis dimidiata
  • Atlantis Fritillary Argynnis atlantis
  • Arctic Skipper Carterocephalus mandan
  • Pepper and Salt Skipper Amblyscirtes hegon
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Snowy Mining Bee Andrena nivalis
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on american groundsels and ragworts
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