What Velvet Bent supports

21 native animals
supported in the US

9 caterpillars 11 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
• Virginia Ctenucha Moth Ctenucha virginica
• False Wainscot Leucania pseudargyria on bent grass
• Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on bent grass
• Striped Garden Caterpillar Moth Trichordestra legitima on bent grass
• Leonard's Skipper Hesperia leonardus on bent grass
• Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on bent grass
• Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on bent grass

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Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
• Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
• Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
• Plant Bug Lopus decolor

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Flower visitors All

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

• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on bent grass