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  3. Arthropods
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  8. Mottled and Straw-barred Pearls and Allies
  9. Mottled Pyrausta Moth
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What supports Mottled Pyrausta Moth

75 native plants
support it in the US
58 caterpillar hosts 17 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

58 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Cherry Prunus serotina keystone
  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum on plume thistles
  • Cobwebby Thistle Cirsium occidentale on plume thistles
  • Texas Thistle Cirsium texanum on plume thistles
  • Field Thistle Cirsium discolor on plume thistles
  • Wavyleaf Thistle Cirsium undulatum on plume thistles
  • Tall Thistle Cirsium altissimum on plume thistles
  • Elk Thistle Cirsium scariosum on plume thistles
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Nectar plants All

17 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • Narrowleaf Mule-ears Wyethia angustifolia
  • Field Pussytoes Antennaria neglecta
  • Purple Groundcherry Quincula lobata
  • Pale Agoseris Agoseris glauca on mountain dandelions
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