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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Knotweed Family
  7. Smartweeds
  8. Pale Smartweed
  9. Supports

What Pale Smartweed supports

140 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 hosts 46 food 87 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata

Hosted animals All

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

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on smartweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Polygonum Aphid Capitophorus hippophaes
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Hairy-eyed Bee-mimic Fly Mallota posticata
  • Parallel-striped Sweat Bee Halictus parallelus
  • Anacrabro ocellatus
  • Dung Fly Copromyza equina
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
  • Bronze Copper Tharsalea hyllus
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