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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Cockleburs
  8. Common Cocklebur
  9. Supports

What Common Cocklebur supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 6 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia
  • Ragweed Borer Moth Epiblema strenuana
  • Mountain Plume Moth Adaina montanus
  • Helcystogramma melantherella
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on cockleburs
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea on cockleburs
  • Pink-spotted Hawkmoth Agrius cingulata on cockleburs
  • Smartweed Borer Ostrinia obumbratalis on cockleburs

Plant eaters All

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

  • Grass Sharpshooter Draeculacephala minerva
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Green Cone-headed Planthopper Acanalonia conica
  • Ragweed Leaf Beetle Ophraella communa
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Broad-headed Sharpshooter Oncometopia orbona on cockleburs

Flower visitors All

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

  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes on cockleburs

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