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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wirelettuces
  8. Tufted Wirelettuce
  9. Supports

What Tufted Wirelettuce supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 bees 15 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cucullia eulepis on wirelettuces
  • Cucullia mcdunnoughi on wirelettuces

Specialist bees All

3 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on wirelettuces
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more on wirelettuces
  • Perdita albonotata Pollen specialist on Stephanomeria on wirelettuces

Flower visitors All

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

  • Peridot Sweat Bee Augochlorella pomoniella on wirelettuces
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana on wirelettuces
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on wirelettuces
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on wirelettuces
  • Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha on wirelettuces
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on wirelettuces
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on wirelettuces
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides on wirelettuces
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