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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and Allies
  6. Arums and Duckweeds
  7. Duckweed
  8. Lemna
  9. Fat Duckweed
  10. Supports

What Fat Duckweed supports

8 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 7 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on duckweed

Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Duckweed Weevil Tanysphyrus lemnae
  • Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
  • Greater Scaup Aythya marila
  • American Coot Fulica americana on duckweed
  • Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis on duckweed

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