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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Sow Thistles
  8. Prickly Sowthistle
  9. Supports

What Prickly Sowthistle supports

82 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 hosts 19 food 58 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Civil Rustic Moth Caradrina montana
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania

Hosted animals All

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

  • Chrysanthemum Leafminer Phytomyza syngenesiae
  • Aulacidea follioti

Plant eaters All

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

  • Sow-thistle Aphid Uroleucon sonchi
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Black-horned Smoothtail Epistrophe grossulariae
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
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