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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bluegrasses
  8. Homalopoa
  9. Bigelow's Bluegrass
  10. Supports

What Bigelow's Bluegrass supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 6 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on bluegrasses
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala on bluegrasses
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane on bluegrasses
  • Garita Skipperling Oarisma garita on bluegrasses
  • Mead’s Wood-Nymph Cercyonis meadii on bluegrasses
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on bluegrasses
  • Sandhill Skipper Polites sabuleti on bluegrasses
  • Juba Skipper Hesperia juba on bluegrasses
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina on bluegrasses
  • Snow Goose Anser caerulescens on bluegrasses
  • Canada Goose Branta canadensis on bluegrasses
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on bluegrasses
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on bluegrasses
  • Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni on bluegrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on bluegrasses

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