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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Primrose Family
  7. Loosestrifes
  8. Starflowers
  9. Northern Starflower
  10. Supports

What Northern Starflower supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 3 bees 1 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana on loosestrifes
  • Loosestrife Borer Moth Papaipema lysimachiae on loosestrifes
  • Sparkling Aterpia Moth Aterpia approximana on loosestrifes

Specialist bees All

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

  • Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife Bee Macropis nuda Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Macropis patellata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Fringed Loosestrife Oil Bee Macropis ciliata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Caribou Rangifer tarandus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Northern Azure Celastrina lucia
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on loosestrifes
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on loosestrifes
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on loosestrifes

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