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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Ryegrasses
  8. Lolium
  9. Italian Ryegrass
  10. Supports

What Italian Ryegrass supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 12 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Virginia Ctenucha Moth Ctenucha virginica
  • Green Cutworm Moth Anicla infecta
  • Belted Grass-veneer Euchromius ocellea

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Grain Aphid Sitobion fragariae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum

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