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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. Polyanthemos
  9. Early Buttercup
  10. Supports

What Early Buttercup supports

92 native animals
supported in the US
2 hosts 9 food 81 flowers

Hosted animals All

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

  • Leaf-Miner Fly Phytomyza ranunculi on buttercups
  • Buttercup-miner Sawfly Pseudodineura fuscula on buttercups

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on buttercups
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on buttercups
  • American Wigeon Mareca americana on buttercups
  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis on buttercups
  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on buttercups
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus on buttercups
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on buttercups
  • Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator on buttercups
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Miserable Mining Bee Andrena miserabilis
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
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