What Patience Dock supports

28 native animals
supported in the US

8 caterpillars 2 hosts 17 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola
• Civil Rustic Moth Caradrina montana
• Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris
• Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata
• Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni
• Ornate Hydriris Moth Hydriris ornatalis
• Wood Tiger Arctia plantaginis
• Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata

Hosted animals All

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

• Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae
• Perapion curtirostre

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Dock Aphid Aphis rumicis
• Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
• Common Green Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus
• Dirt-colored Seed Bug Sphragisticus nebulosus

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Flower visitors All

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

• Large Heath Coenonympha tullia