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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Sand Fescue
  9. Supports

What Sand Fescue supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 5 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
  • Lindsey's Skipper Hesperia lindseyi on fescues
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens on fescues
  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti on fescues
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella on fescues
  • Field Skipper Atalopedes campestris on fescues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii on fescues
  • Muirodelphax arvensis on fescues
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum on fescues

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