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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. Flammula
  9. Creeping Spearwort
  10. Supports

What Creeping Spearwort supports

74 native animals
supported in the US
2 hosts 15 food 57 flowers

Hosted animals All

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

  • Leaf-Miner Fly Phytomyza ranunculi on buttercups
  • Buttercup-miner Sawfly Pseudodineura fuscula on buttercups

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
  • Striped Flea Beetle Phyllotreta striolata
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Buttercup Blacklet Cheilosia albitarsis
  • Poplar-Buttercup Gall Aphid Thecabius affinis
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus
  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
  • Black-horned Smoothtail Epistrophe grossulariae
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