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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. Small Pondweed
  9. Supports

What Small Pondweed supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 17 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Watermilfoil Leafcutter Moth Parapoynx allionealis
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on pondweeds
  • Pondside Crambid Moth Elophila icciusalis on pondweeds
  • Obscure Pondweed Moth Parapoynx obscuralis on pondweeds
  • Floating-heart Waterlily Moth Parapoynx seminealis on pondweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
  • Gadwall Mareca strepera
  • Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
  • Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
  • Northern Pintail Anas acuta
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