What Silverling supports

32 native animals
supported in the US

1 caterpillars 5 bees 3 hosts 1 food 22 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Salt Marsh Moth Estigmene acrea on baccharis

Specialist bees All

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

• Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on baccharis
• Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more on baccharis
• Nevada Nomia Dieunomia nevadensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Heterotheca, Baccharis and 9 more on baccharis
• Eight-spotted Fairy Bee Perdita octomaculata Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Pityopsis and 4 more on baccharis
• Colletes thysanellae Pollen specialist on Solidago, Baccharis, Balduina and 1 more on baccharis

Hosted animals All

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

• Bumelia Borer Plinthocoelium suaveolens on baccharis
• Neolasioptera lathami on baccharis
• Groundselbush Beetle Trirhabda bacharidis on baccharis

Plant eaters All

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

• Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus on baccharis

Flower visitors All

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

• Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
• Polka-Dot Wasp Moth Syntomeida epilais
• Mexican Cactus Fly Copestylum mexicanum
• Carolinian Elegant Meromacrus acutus
• Double-banded Plushback Palpada agrorum
• Orange-collared Seed Bug Ochrimnus mimulus
• Y-shaped Streaktail Allograpta radiata
• Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on baccharis

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