What Wright's Buckwheat supports
174
native animals
supported in the US
23
caterpillars
1
bees
2
hosts
17
food
131
flowers
supported in the US
Caterpillars All
23 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.
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Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
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Dotted Blue
Euphilotes enoptes
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Behr's Metalmark
Apodemia virgulti
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Lotus Hairstreak
Callophrys dumetorum
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Buckwheat Root Borer Moth
Synanthedon polygoni
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Sheridan's Hairstreak
Callophrys sheridanii
on wild buckwheats
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Square-spotted Blue
Euphilotes battoides
on wild buckwheats
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Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
on wild buckwheats
Specialist bees All
1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.
Hosted animals All
2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.
Plant eaters All
17 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.
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Western Yellowjacket
Vespula pensylvanica
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Eucerceris tricolor
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Sphex lucae
on wild buckwheats
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Hemipenthes inops
on wild buckwheats
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Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle
Saxinis saucia
on wild buckwheats
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Cerceris sextoides
on wild buckwheats
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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
Sceliphron caementarium
on wild buckwheats
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Oblique Streaktail
Allograpta obliqua
on wild buckwheats
Flower visitors All
131 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.
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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
Bombus vosnesenskii
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Golden Paper Wasp
Polistes aurifer
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Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
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Golden Plushback
Palpada mexicana
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Queen
Danaus gilippus
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Gray Buckeye
Junonia grisea
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Marine Blue
Leptotes marina
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Western Pygmy-Blue
Brephidium exilis