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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Knapweeds, Bluets, Loggerheads, and Allies
  9. Squarrose Knapweed
  10. Supports

What Squarrose Knapweed supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 10 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Smeathmann's Aethes Moth Aethes smeathmanniana
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Blue Shield Bug Zicrona caerulea
  • Trefoil Plant Bug Plagiognathus chrysanthemi
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • White-spotted Sable Anania funebris
  • Common Loopwing Aphideater Lapposyrphus lapponicus
  • Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus flavidus
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes

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