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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Water-Lilies, Fanworts, and Allies
  6. Water-lilies
  7. Yellow Pond-lilies
  8. Yellow Water-lily
  9. Supports

What Yellow Water-lily supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 11 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Lotus Borer Moth Ostrinia penitalis
  • Polymorphic Pondweed Moth Parapoynx maculalis
  • Obscure Pondweed Moth Parapoynx obscuralis
  • Waterlily Owlet Homophoberia cristata
  • White-tailed Diver Moth Bellura gortynoides

Hosted animals All

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

  • Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae

Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
  • Donacia piscatrix
  • Donacia proxima
  • Hydromyza confluens
  • Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
  • Nectopsyche exquisita
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
  • Schwarz's Masked Bee Hylaeus schwarzii
  • Water-lily Sweat Bee Lasioglossum nelumbonis Pollen specialist on Nymphaea, Nuphar and Nelumbo
  • Dusky Bog Fly Parhelophilus rex on yellow pond-lilies

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