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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. Flammula
  9. Lesser Spearwort
  10. Supports

What Lesser Spearwort supports

106 native animals
supported in the US
1 bees 3 hosts 26 food 76 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Caerulean Miner Bee Andrena caerulea Pollen specialist on Ranunculus on buttercups

Hosted animals All

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

  • Leaf-Miner Fly Phytomyza ranunculi on buttercups
  • Black-horned Tenthredo Tenthredo atra on buttercups
  • Buttercup-miner Sawfly Pseudodineura fuscula on buttercups

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Poplar-Buttercup Gall Aphid Thecabius affinis
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
  • Striped Flea Beetle Phyllotreta striolata
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
  • Black-horned Smoothtail Epistrophe grossulariae
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Broad-banded Aphideater Eupeodes latifasciatus
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