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

What Broad-winged Thistle supports

94 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 2 hosts 11 food 79 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Hosted animals All

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

  • Thistle Crown Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus
  • Hadroplontus litura

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Three-banded Lady Beetle Coccinella trifasciata
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Northern Amber Bumble Bee Bombus borealis
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Bombus terricola
  • Eastern Thistle Longhorn Bee Melissodes desponsus Pollen specialist on Cirsium
  • Eastern Giant Swallowtail Heraclides cresphontes
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