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

What Swamp Smartweed supports

162 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 hosts 56 food 104 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Eye-ringed Chionodes Moth Chionodes discoocellella

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata on smartweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia mexicana
  • Isodontia philadelphica
  • Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
  • Carolinian Elegant Meromacrus acutus
  • Larra analis
  • Yellow-thighed Thick-leg Fly Tropidia albistylum
  • Metric Paper Wasp Polistes metricus
  • Fraternal Potter Wasp Eumenes fraternus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Hump-backed Beewolf Philanthus gibbosus
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium
  • Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
  • Northern Plushback Palpada vinetorum
  • Ichneumon ambulatorius
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