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

What Tapertip Hawksbeard supports

43 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 8 food 33 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum on hawksbeards
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni on hawksbeards

Plant eaters All

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

  • Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
  • Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta on hawksbeards
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis on hawksbeards
  • Dalmannia pacifica on hawksbeards
  • Ox-tongue Aphid Uroleucon picridis on hawksbeards
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos on hawksbeards
  • Black-margined Flower Fly Syrphus opinator on hawksbeards
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on hawksbeards

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee Megachile pugnata Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Helianthus and 3 more
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Garita Skipperling Oarisma garita
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