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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. California Buttercup
  9. Supports

What California Buttercup supports

82 native animals
supported in the US
1 bees 2 hosts 23 food 56 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Caerulean Miner Bee Andrena caerulea Pollen specialist on Ranunculus on buttercups

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
  • Black-horned Tenthredo Tenthredo atra on buttercups

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brachysomida californica
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta
  • Three-striped Longhorn Adela trigrapha
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
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