What Orchard Grass supports

70 native animals
supported in the US

22 caterpillars 25 food 23 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens
• False Wainscot Leucania pseudargyria
• Heterodox Wainscot Moth Leucania insueta
• Unarmed Wainscot Leucania inermis
• Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta
• Little Wood Satyr Megisto cymela
• Changeable Grass-veneer Fissicrambus mutabilis
• Umber Skipper Lon melane

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Plant eaters All

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

• English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
• Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
• Javesella pellucida

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Flower visitors All

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

• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
• Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
• Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
• Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
• Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
• Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
• Yellow-collared Scape Moth Cisseps fulvicollis
• Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura

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