What Creeping Bent supports

19 native animals
supported in the US

1 caterpillars 15 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Large Heath Coenonympha tullia

Plant eaters All

15 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
• Sharp-headed Sharpshooter Draeculacephala robinsoni
• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
• Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus

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Flower visitors All

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

• Golden Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria
• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
• Pale-veined Emerald-bottle Bellardia vulgaris