What Water Dock supports

24 native animals
supported in the US

6 caterpillars 1 hosts 16 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Civil Rustic Moth Caradrina montana
• 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

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

• Rhinoncus pericarpius

Plant eaters All

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

• Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
• Common Green Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus
• Dirt-colored Seed Bug Sphragisticus nebulosus
• Dock Aphid Aphis rumicis
• Perapion curtirostre
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
• Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator

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Flower visitors All

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

• Large Heath Coenonympha tullia