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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Colorado Thistle
  9. Supports
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Colorado Thistle

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 5 records on plume thistles
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta 4 records on plume thistles
  • Pale Crescent Phyciodes pallida 4 records on plume thistles
  • Parthenice Tiger Moth Apantesis parthenice 3 records on plume thistles
  • Artichoke Plume Moth Platyptilia carduidactylus 3 records on plume thistles
  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella 2 records on plume thistles
  • Celery Looper Moth Anagrapha falcifera 1 record on plume thistles
  • Mottled Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta subsequalis 1 record on plume thistles

Nativity unknown

1 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Variegated Cutworm Moth Peridroma saucia 1 record on plume thistles

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