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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Idaho Fescue
  9. Supports

What Idaho Fescue supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
17 caterpillars 7 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti
  • Lindsey's Skipper Hesperia lindseyi
  • Chryxus Arctic Oeneis chryxus
  • Mardon Skipper Polites mardon
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii on fescues
  • Muirodelphax arvensis on fescues
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum on fescues

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