What Lewis Flax supports

77 native animals
supported in the US

3 caterpillars 4 food 70 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum on flaxes
• Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia on flaxes
• Bertha Armyworm Moth Mamestra configurata on flaxes

Plant eaters All

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

• Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua
• Fall Field Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus on flaxes
• Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on flaxes
• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus on flaxes

Flower visitors All

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

• Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
• Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
• Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
• Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
• Incomplete Sweat Bee Lasioglossum incompletum
• Edwards's Long-horned Bee Eucera edwardsii
• Misbehaved Sweat Bee Lasioglossum inconditum
• Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus

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