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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Knotweed Family
  7. Smartweeds
  8. Pink Knotweed
  9. Supports

What Pink Knotweed supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 18 food 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis
  • Polygonum Aphid Capitophorus hippophaes
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
  • Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
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Flower visitors All

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

  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Gray Buckeye Junonia grisea
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous

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