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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Sixweeks Grass
  9. Supports

What Sixweeks Grass supports

25 native animals
supported in the US
17 caterpillars 8 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami on fescues
  • Topiary Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia topiarius on fescues
  • Sod Webworm Moth Pediasia trisecta on fescues
  • Indian Skipper Hesperia sassacus on fescues
  • Alberta Arctic Oeneis alberta on fescues
  • Lindsey's Skipper Hesperia lindseyi on fescues
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on fescues
  • Bordered Apamea Moth Apamea sordens on fescues
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on fescues
  • Javesella pellucida on fescues
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on fescues
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii on fescues
  • Muirodelphax arvensis on fescues
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum on fescues

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