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

What Western Hawksbeard supports

52 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 8 food 42 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.

  • Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta on hawksbeards
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis on hawksbeards
  • Dalmannia pacifica on hawksbeards
  • Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus 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

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Megachile subnigra Pollen specialist on Senecio, Cirsium, Ericameria and 7 more
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Prunus Miner Bee Andrena prunorum
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Bumblebee-like Digger Bee Anthophora bomboides
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