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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Sandburs
  8. Kikuyu Grass
  9. Supports

What Kikuyu Grass supports

7 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 4 food 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Trapeze Moth Marasmia trapezalis

Plant eaters All

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

  • Delphacid Planthopper Tagosodes cubanus
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Delphacid Planthopper Sogatella kolophon
  • Yellow Sugarcane Aphid Sipha flava

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Encyrtid Parasitoid Neodusmetia sangwani

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