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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Mule's Ears
  8. Woolly Mule's Ears
  9. Supports

What Woolly Mule's Ears supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 2 bees 4 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on mule's ears
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on mule's ears

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus
  • Sunflower Seed Maggot Neotephritis finalis
  • Brachysomida californica on mule's ears
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on mule's ears

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
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