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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Amaranths
  7. Russian Thistles
  8. Prickly Russian Thistle
  9. Supports

What Prickly Russian Thistle supports

62 native animals
supported in the US
17 food 45 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Philaronia abjecta
  • Common Raccoon Procyon lotor
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer
  • Seedcorn Maggot Delia platura
  • Clastoptera delicata
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Tiny Small Carpenter Ceratina nanula
  • Attractive Running Crab Spider Rhysodromus histrio
  • Lasioglossum albohirtum
  • Lasioglossum semicaeruleum
  • Nevada Sweat Bee Lasioglossum nevadense
  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
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