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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Pink Family
  7. Mouse-ear Chickweeds
  8. Cerastium fontanum
  9. Common Mouse-ear Chickweed
  10. Supports

What Common Mouse-ear Chickweed supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 10 food 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Elder Aphid Aphis sambuci
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Modest Masked Bee Hylaeus modestus
  • Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon
  • Long-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes americanus

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