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  4. Dicots
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  7. Alexanders
  8. Golden Alexanders
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What Golden Alexanders supports

218 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 bees 3 food 207 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
  • Common Eupithecia Moth Eupithecia miserulata
  • Clemens' Agonopterix Agonopterix clemensella
  • Rigid Sunflower Borer Moth Papaipema rigida
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Ozark Swallowtail Papilio joanae

Specialist bees All

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

  • Golden-Alexanders Mining Bee Andrena ziziae Pollen specialist on Zizia on alexanders
  • Broad-faced Masked Bee Hylaeus sparsus Pollen specialist on Sanicula, Thaspium, Osmorhiza and 2 more on alexanders

Plant eaters All

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

  • Zethus spinipes
  • Wasp Leucospis affinis
  • Aphis saniculae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Milwaukee Mining Bee Andrena milwaukeensis
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Commodius Miner Bee Andrena commoda
  • Modest Masked Bee Hylaeus modestus
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