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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Ryegrasses
  8. Lolium
  9. Perennial Ryegrass
  10. Supports

What Perennial Ryegrass supports

35 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 19 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania
  • Virginia Ctenucha Moth Ctenucha virginica
  • Belted Grass-veneer Euchromius ocellea

Plant eaters All

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

  • Javesella pellucida
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Muscoid Fly Myospila meditabunda
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Common Carpet Moth Epirrhoe alternata
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Dark-horned Muscina Muscina levida
  • Seedcorn Maggot Delia platura
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