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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and Allies
  6. Water-plantains
  7. Arrowheads
  8. Graminea Group
  9. Quillwort Arrowhead
  10. Supports

What Quillwort Arrowhead supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 hosts 4 food 9 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua on arrowheads
  • Waterlily Owlet Homophoberia cristata on arrowheads

Hosted animals All

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

  • Waterlily Leaf Beetle Galerucella nymphaeae on arrowheads

Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae on arrowheads
  • American Coot Fulica americana on arrowheads
  • Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula on arrowheads
  • Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis on arrowheads

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon splendens on arrowheads
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor on arrowheads
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on arrowheads
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on arrowheads
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on arrowheads
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens on arrowheads
  • Northern Plushback Palpada vinetorum on arrowheads
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata on arrowheads
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