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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Complex Festuca Rubra
  9. Red Fescue
  10. Supports

What Red Fescue supports

51 native animals
supported in the US
20 caterpillars 30 food 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Field Skipper Atalopedes campestris
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius
  • Mardon Skipper Polites mardon
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Rice Leaf Bug Trigonotylus caelestialium
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
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Sheltered animals All

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

  • Sycophila

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