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What Smooth Meadow-grass supports

105 native animals
supported in the US
47 caterpillars 32 food 26 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia
  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta
  • White-marked Tussock Moth Orgyia leucostigma
  • Lucerne Moth Nomophila nearctica
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius
  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-legged Grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Sulphur-winged Grasshopper Arphia sulphurea
  • Leafhopper Graphocraerus ventralis
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Elegant Grass-veneer Microcrambus elegans
  • Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana
  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata
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