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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Rushes
  7. Wiwi
  8. Ozophyllum
  9. Needlepod Rush
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What Needlepod Rush supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 11 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on wiwi
  • Javelin Moth Bactra verutana on wiwi
  • Mottled Marble Bactra furfurana on wiwi
  • Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla on wiwi
  • Streaked Coleophora Moth Coleophora cratipennella on wiwi
  • Grey Rush Case-bearer Coleophora glaucicolella on wiwi
  • Coleophora concolorella on wiwi
  • Coleophora quadrilineella on wiwi

Plant eaters All

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

  • Macrosteles slossoni on wiwi
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on wiwi
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae on wiwi
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons on wiwi
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on wiwi
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus on wiwi
  • Sharp-headed Sharpshooter Draeculacephala robinsoni on wiwi
  • Sheepshead Minnow Cyprinodon variegatus on wiwi
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
  • Needham's Skimmer Libellula needhami

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