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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Rushes
  7. Wiwi
  8. Juncus effusus
  9. Soft Rush
  10. Supports

What Soft Rush supports

45 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 1 hosts 31 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Streaked Coleophora Moth Coleophora cratipennella
  • Grey Rush Case-bearer Coleophora glaucicolella
  • Coleophora concolorella
  • Mottled Marble Bactra furfurana
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Coleophora quadrilineella
  • Javelin Moth Bactra verutana on wiwi
  • Jutta Arctic Oeneis jutta on wiwi
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Yellow-bellied Rush-cutter Eutomostethus luteiventris

Plant eaters All

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

  • Yellowish Planthopper Conomelus anceps
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • July Highflyer Moth Hydriomena furcata
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
  • Eyed Brown Lethe eurydice

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