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  9. Willow Dock
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What Willow Dock supports

60 native animals
supported in the US
37 caterpillars 3 hosts 19 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Great Copper Tharsalea xanthoides
  • Ruddy Copper Tharsalea rubidus
  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata on dock
  • Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth Pseudeustrotia carneola on dock
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on dock
  • Banded Olethreutes Moth Olethreutes fasciatana on dock
  • Olive Angle Shades Phlogophora iris on dock
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae on dock
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici on dock
  • Blue Dock Beetle Gastrophysa cyanea on dock

Plant eaters All

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

  • Dock Aphid Aphis rumicis on dock
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius on dock
  • Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis on dock
  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina on dock
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on dock
  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on dock
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on dock
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on dock
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on dock

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