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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Sow Thistles
  8. Palustres
  9. Marsh Sow-thistle
  10. Supports

What Marsh Sow-thistle supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 6 food 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Civil Rustic Moth Caradrina montana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Sow-thistle Aphid Uroleucon sonchi
  • Poplar Gall Aphid Pemphigus bursarius
  • Ox-tongue Aphid Uroleucon picridis
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
  • Common Loopwing Aphideater Lapposyrphus lapponicus
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes

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