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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Dogbanes and Milkweeds
  7. Milkweeds
  8. Welsh's Milkweed
  9. Supports

What Welsh's Milkweed supports

37 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 3 food 31 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on milkweeds
  • Isabella Tiger Moth Pyrrharctia isabella on milkweeds
  • Queen Danaus gilippus on milkweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus on milkweeds
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus on milkweeds
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on milkweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Hunter's Little Paper Wasp Polistes dorsalis
  • American Sand Wasp Bembix americana
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia
  • Western Carpenter Bee Xylocopa californica
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Tiny Small Carpenter Ceratina nanula
  • Lasioglossum albohirtum
  • Dune Cutworm Moth Euxoa aurulenta
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