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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Rushes
  7. Wiwi
  8. Stygiopsis
  9. Chestnut Rush
  10. Supports

What Chestnut Rush supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 11 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mottled Marble Bactra furfurana
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Grey Rush Case-bearer Coleophora glaucicolella
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on wiwi
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on wiwi

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
  • Yellowish Planthopper Conomelus anceps
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