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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. Lanceleaf Arrowhead
  10. Supports

What Lanceleaf Arrowhead supports

38 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 30 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

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

  • Fraternal Potter Wasp Eumenes fraternus
  • 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

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

  • Schwarz's Masked Bee Hylaeus schwarzii
  • White Peacock Anartia jatrophae
  • Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon splendens
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
  • Northern Plushback Palpada vinetorum
  • Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee Megachile xylocopoides Pollen specialist on Solidago, Helianthus, Coreopsis and 3 more
  • Broad-winged Skipper Poanes viator
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