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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Water-Lilies, Fanworts, and Allies
  6. Water-lilies
  7. Water-lilies
  8. Brachyceras
  9. Dotleaf Waterlily
  10. Supports

What Dotleaf Waterlily supports

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

Caterpillars All

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

  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on water-lilies
  • Waterlily Borer Moth Elophila gyralis on water-lilies
  • Polymorphic Pondweed Moth Parapoynx maculalis on water-lilies
  • White-tailed Diver Moth Bellura gortynoides on water-lilies

Specialist bees All

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

  • Water-lily Sweat Bee Lasioglossum nelumbonis Pollen specialist on Nymphaea, Nuphar and Nelumbo on water-lilies

Hosted animals All

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

  • Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae on water-lilies

Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae on water-lilies

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on water-lilies

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