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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bent Grass
  8. Pacific Bentgrass
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What Pacific Bentgrass supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 3 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on bent grass
  • Common Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes vialis on bent grass
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on bent grass
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on bent grass
  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti on bent grass
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia on bent grass
  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on bent grass
  • Army Cutworm Moth Euxoa auxiliaris on bent grass

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos on bent grass
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi on bent grass
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii on bent grass

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