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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Hair Grass
  8. Tufted Hair Grass
  9. Supports

What Tufted Hair Grass supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 17 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Cottongrass Sedge-miner Elachista albidella
  • Juba Skipper Hesperia juba on hair grass
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella on hair grass

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
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