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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Lythrum Family
  7. Lythrums
  8. California Loosestrife
  9. Supports

What California Loosestrife supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pearly Wood-nymph Eudryas unio on lythrums

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on lythrums

Flower visitors All

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

  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Honey-tailed Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon melliventris
  • Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sisymbrii
  • Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus
  • Parosela Long-horned Bee Melissodes paroselae
  • Red-tailed Squash Bee Xenoglossa angustior Pollen specialist on Cucurbita
  • Oblique Sweat Bee Agapostemon obliquus
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