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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Primrose Family
  7. Loosestrifes
  8. Seleucia
  9. Fringed Loosestrife
  10. Supports

What Fringed Loosestrife supports

36 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 4 bees 27 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hitched Arches Melanchra adjuncta
  • Blurry-patched Nola Moth Nola cilicoides
  • Sparkling Aterpia Moth Aterpia approximana
  • Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana on loosestrifes
  • Loosestrife Borer Moth Papaipema lysimachiae on loosestrifes

Specialist bees All

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

  • Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife Bee Macropis nuda Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Macropis patellata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Fringed Loosestrife Oil Bee Macropis ciliata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Macropis steironematis Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Viceroy Limenitis archippus
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Appalachian Brown Lethe appalachia
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