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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Morning-glory Family
  7. Dodders
  8. Cuscuta Sect. Cleistogrammica
  9. Five Angled Dodder
  10. Supports

What Five Angled Dodder supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus on dodders

Specialist bees All

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

  • Colletes ciliatus Pollen specialist on Cuscuta on dodders

Hosted animals All

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

  • Dodder Gall Weevil Smicronyx sculpticollis on dodders

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on dodders
  • Ivy Aphid Aphis hederae on dodders

Flower visitors All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on dodders
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on dodders
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon on dodders
  • Mormon Metalmark Apodemia mormo on dodders

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