What Cheatgrass supports

21 native animals
supported in the US

1 caterpillars 15 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Pale Western Cutworm Moth Agrotis orthogonia

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
• Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
• English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
• California Quail Callipepla californica

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Flower visitors All

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

• Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
• Pale Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon
• Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta
• Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus
• Porter's Digger Bee Anthophora porterae Pollen specialist on Astragalus