What Poverty Weed supports
67
native animals
supported in the US
12
caterpillars
6
bees
4
hosts
6
food
39
flowers
supported in the US
Caterpillars All
12 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.
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Common Tan Wave Pleuroprucha insulsaria
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North American Common Gray
Anavitrinella pampinaria
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Common Eupithecia Moth
Eupithecia miserulata
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Bucculatrix ivella
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Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera ornithogalli
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Fall Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera frugiperda
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American Sunflower Moth
Homoeosoma electella
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White-dotted Groundling
Condica videns
Specialist bees All
6 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.
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Parallel Leafcutter Bee
Megachile parallela
Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more
on baccharis
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Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee
Megachile inimica
Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more
on baccharis
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Nevada Nomia
Dieunomia nevadensis
Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Heterotheca, Baccharis and 9 more
on baccharis
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Dark-faced Longhorn Bee
Melissodes tristis
Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more
on baccharis
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Protandrena albitarsis
Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia and 3 more
on baccharis
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Sabine Longhorn Bee
Epimelissodes sabinensis
Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Baccharis, Heterotheca and 8 more
on baccharis
Hosted animals All
4 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.
Plant eaters All
6 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.
Flower visitors All
39 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.
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Monarch
Danaus plexippus
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Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
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Queen
Danaus gilippus
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Juniper Hairstreak
Callophrys gryneus
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Great Purple Hairstreak
Atlides halesus
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Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
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Hunter's Little Paper Wasp
Polistes dorsalis
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Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth
Lycomorpha pholus