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  8. Sunflower Seed Maggot
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What supports Sunflower Seed Maggot

20 native plants
support it in the US
1 hosts 7 food 12 flowers

Host plants All

1 native plants it lives on or in, most recorded first.

  • Brittlebush Encelia farinosa

Food plants All

7 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Woolly Mule's Ears Wyethia mollis
  • Narrowleaf Mule-ears Wyethia angustifolia on mule's ears
  • Smooth Mule-ears Wyethia glabra on mule's ears
  • Northern Mule's Ears Wyethia amplexicaulis on mule's ears
  • Gray Mule-Ears Wyethia helenioides on mule's ears
  • Sunflower Mule-ears Wyethia helianthoides on mule's ears
  • Arizona Mule-ears Wyethia arizonica on mule's ears

Nectar plants All

12 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • California Brittlebush Encelia californica
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Desert Sunflower Geraea canescens
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus tuberosus keystone
  • Barestem Biscuitroot Lomatium nudicaule
  • Spring Gold Crocidium multicaule
  • Slender Hawksbeard Crepis atribarba
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