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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Pannonic Thistle
  9. Supports

What Pannonic Thistle supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 10 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Large Thistle Aphid Uroleucon cirsii
  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui
  • Hadroplontus litura
  • Thistle Aphid Capitophorus elaeagni
  • Trefoil Plant Bug Plagiognathus chrysanthemi
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Marsh Greenbottle Fly Lucilia silvarum
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Four-spotted Sap Beetle Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
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