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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Bulrush and Cattail Family
  7. Bur-reeds
  8. Narrow-leaved Bur-reed
  9. Supports

What Narrow-leaved Bur-reed supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 13 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Cattail Borer Moth Bellura obliqua on bur-reeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Hairy-necked Pondweed Beetle Donacia hirticollis
  • Subtle Reed Beetle Donacia subtilis
  • Waterlily Aphid Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae
  • Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Long-nosed Swamp Fly Eurimyia stipata
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on bur-reeds
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura on bur-reeds

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