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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Bulrush and Cattail Family
  7. Cattails
  8. Narrow-leaved Cattail
  9. Supports

What Narrow-leaved Cattail supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 16 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Shy Cosmet Moth Limnaecia phragmitella
  • Narrow-leaved Cattail Diver Moth Bellura brehmei
  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua on cattails
  • Julia's Dicymolomia Moth Dicymolomia julianalis on cattails
  • Pickerelweed Borer Moth Bellura densa on cattails
  • White-tailed Diver Moth Bellura gortynoides on cattails
  • Obsolete-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura obsoletana on cattails
  • Bactra maiorina on cattails

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
  • Two-spotted Lady Beetle Adalia bipunctata
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Cryptophilus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on cattails

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