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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Scorpionweeds
  8. Cosmanthoides
  9. Sand Phacelia
  10. Supports

What Sand Phacelia supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 26 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Zeller's Ethmia Moth Ethmia zelleriella on scorpionweeds
  • Ethmia macelhosiella on scorpionweeds

Specialist bees All

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

  • Anthidium palmarum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on scorpionweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis on scorpionweeds
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor on scorpionweeds
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana on scorpionweeds
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on scorpionweeds
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on scorpionweeds
  • California Digger Bee Anthophora californica on scorpionweeds
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris on scorpionweeds
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