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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Melancholy Thistle
  9. Supports

What Melancholy Thistle supports

27 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 14 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Large Thistle Aphid Uroleucon cirsii
  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Four-spotted Sap Beetle Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
  • Common Loopwing Aphideater Lapposyrphus lapponicus
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