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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Wildryes
  8. Bottlebrush Grass
  9. Supports

What Bottlebrush Grass supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 5 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Northern Pearly-eye Lethe anthedon
  • Lanceolate Moth Helcystogramma hystricella
  • Elachista orestella
  • False Wainscot Leucania pseudargyria on wildryes
  • Garita Skipperling Oarisma garita on wildryes
  • Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta on wildryes
  • Wheat Head Armyworm Dargida diffusa on wildryes
  • Elachista illectella on wildryes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Chalepus walshii
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on wildryes
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi on wildryes
  • Javesella pellucida on wildryes
  • Attenuipyga platyrhyncha on wildryes

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