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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Palafox
  8. Spanish Needle
  9. Supports

What Spanish Needle supports

44 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 bees 2 food 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella
  • Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia on palafox
  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole on palafox
  • Honora mellinella on palafox

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on palafox
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more on palafox

Plant eaters All

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

  • Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus
  • California Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Elegant Blister Beetle Eupompha elegans
  • Spanish Needles Flower Moth Schinia niveicosta
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
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