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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Shortleaf Fescue
  9. Supports
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Shortleaf Fescue

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

  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti 4 records
  • White-veined Arctic Oeneis bore 3 records
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami 5 records on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius 3 records on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta 3 records on fescues
  • Alberta Arctic Oeneis alberta 3 records on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens 2 records on fescues
  • Nevada Skipper Hesperia nevada 2 records on fescues
  • Yellow Satin Veneer Crambus perlella 1 record on fescues
  • Chryxus Arctic Oeneis chryxus 1 record on fescues
  • Uhler's Arctic Oeneis uhleri 1 record on fescues

Nativity unknown

1 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Sierra Skipper Hesperia miriamae 3 records

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