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  8. Long-leaved Starwort
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What Long-leaved Starwort supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 7 food 41 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe ferrugata
  • Chickweed Geometer Moth Haematopis grataria on chickweeds
  • Venerable Dart Agrotis venerabilis on chickweeds
  • Simple Wave Scopula junctaria on chickweeds
  • Gnorimoschema coquillettella on chickweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Pale Tortoise Beetle Cassida flaveola
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua on chickweeds
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius on chickweeds
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous on chickweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Common Eastern Firefly Photinus pyralis
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
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