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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Creeping Thistle
  9. Supports
  10. Hosted animals

Hosted animals on Creeping Thistle

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

  • Red-tailed Thistle Fly Terellia ruficauda 4 records
  • Hadroplontus litura 3 records
  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus 2 records
  • Phytomyza spinaciae 1 record

Not native to the US

6 animals, most recorded first.

  • Thistle Stem Gall Fly Urophora cardui 64 records · introduced
  • Turbine Cylindrical Weevil Larinus turbinatus 31 records · introduced
  • Thistle Tortoise Beetle Cassida rubiginosa 22 records · introduced
  • Canada Thistle Bud Weevil Larinus carlinae 19 records · introduced
  • Nodding Thistle Receptacle Weevil Rhinocyllus conicus 11 records · introduced
  • Bull Thistle Gall Fly Urophora stylata 5 records · introduced

Nativity unknown

3 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Elongated Bean Weevil Lixus pulverulentus 3 records
  • Sow-thistle Fly Ensina sonchi 3 records
  • Yellow Starthistle Rosette Weevil Ceratapion basicorne 2 records

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