What Tidy Tips supports

52 native animals
supported in the US

2 caterpillars 2 bees 13 food 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Small Heliothodes Moth Heliothodes diminutiva
• Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

• Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on tidytips
• California Mason Bee Osmia californica Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Senecio, Ericameria and 6 more on tidytips

Plant eaters All

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

• Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
• Black-margined Flower Fly Syrphus opinator
• Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
• Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis
• Diamond Spottail Fazia micrura
• Acmaeodera hepburnii
• Nemognatha scutellaris
• Physocephala burgessi

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Flower visitors All

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

• Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
• Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha
• Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
• Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
• Adela flammeusella
• Gray Buckeye Junonia grisea
• Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
• Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes

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