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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Carrots, Ivies, and Allies
  6. Carrot Family
  7. Water Hemlocks
  8. Western Water Hemlock
  9. Supports

What Western Water Hemlock supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon on water hemlocks
  • Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon on water hemlocks

Hosted animals All

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

  • Parsnip Leaf Miner Euleia fratria

Plant eaters All

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

  • Fennel Aphid Hyadaphis foeniculi on water hemlocks

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Bombus terricola
  • Phytodietus
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius on water hemlocks
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on water hemlocks
  • Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee Megachile pugnata Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Helianthus and 3 more on water hemlocks
  • Mesilla Masked Bee Hylaeus mesillae on water hemlocks
  • Eastern Masked Bee Hylaeus affinis on water hemlocks

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