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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and Allies
  6. Pondweed Family
  7. Pondweeds
  8. Floating-leaved Pondweed
  9. Supports

What Floating-leaved Pondweed supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 19 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Obscure Pondweed Moth Parapoynx obscuralis
  • Pondside Crambid Moth Elophila icciusalis
  • Chestnut-marked Pondweed Moth Parapoynx badiusalis
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on pondweeds
  • Floating-heart Waterlily Moth Parapoynx seminealis on pondweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Hairy-necked Pondweed Beetle Donacia hirticollis
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
  • Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
  • Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
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