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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. Nodding Chickweed
  9. Supports

What Nodding Chickweed supports

48 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 4 food 38 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Sharp-angled Carpet Euphyia intermediata on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Simple Wave Scopula junctaria on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Venerable Dart Agrotis venerabilis on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Capsule Moth Hadena capsularis on mouse-ear chickweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • Elder Aphid Aphis sambuci on mouse-ear chickweeds
  • White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura on mouse-ear chickweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Museum Beetle Anthrenus museorum
  • Cerceris insolita
  • Broad-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus latifrons
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