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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Rose Family
  7. Dropworts and Meadowsweets
  8. Meadowsweet
  9. Supports

What Meadowsweet supports

50 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 hosts 7 food 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa
  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata

Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Dark Bramble-cutter Monophadnoides rubi
  • Bristly Rose Sawfly Cladius pectinicornis

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Spotted Plant Bug Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
  • Common Green Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus
  • Cinquefoil Mining Sawfly Fenella nigrita

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
  • Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
  • Cryptic Bumble Bee Bombus cryptarum
  • Dusky-banded Leafwalker Chalcosyrphus nemorum
  • Buttercup Blacklet Cheilosia albitarsis
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