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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Rhaponticum
  8. Russian Knapweed
  9. Supports

What Russian Knapweed supports

33 native animals
supported in the US
1 hosts 1 food 31 flowers

Hosted animals All

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

  • Russian Knapweed Gall Wasp Aulacidea acroptilonica

Plant eaters All

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

  • Bicyrtes ventralis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-margined Nomad Bee Nomada vegana
  • Wide-legged Sweat Bee Agapostemon femoratus
  • Wide-striped Sweat Bee Halictus farinosus
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Pacific Coast Small Carpenter Ceratina pacifica
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more
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