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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Ragweeds
  8. Silver Beachweed
  9. Supports

What Silver Beachweed supports

32 native animals
supported in the US
10 caterpillars 1 hosts 21 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Oso Flaco Flightless Moth Areniscythris brachypteris
  • Western Tussock Moth Orgyia vetusta
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica on ragweeds
  • Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana on ragweeds
  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on ragweeds
  • Soft-lined Wave Scopula inductata on ragweeds
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis on ragweeds
  • Black-smudged Chionodes Moth Chionodes mediofuscella on ragweeds
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Asphondylia ambrosiae

Plant eaters All

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

  • California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
  • Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater on ragweeds
  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on ragweeds
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on ragweeds
  • Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii on ragweeds
  • Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator on ragweeds
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia on ragweeds
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea on ragweeds
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