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

What Small Pussytoes supports

31 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 1 food 24 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Telethusia ovalis on pussytoes
  • White-spotted Midget Eutricopis nexilis on pussytoes
  • Chionodes fondella on pussytoes

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Small Long-horned Bee Melissodes microstictus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Symphyotrichum and 14 more on pussytoes

Hosted animals All

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

  • Asphondylia antennariae on pussytoes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus on pussytoes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus
  • Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon on pussytoes
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus on pussytoes
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on pussytoes
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura on pussytoes
  • Early Tachinid Fly Epalpus signifer on pussytoes
  • Hawthorn Mining Bee Andrena crataegi on pussytoes
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