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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Knapweed
  9. Greater Knapweed
  10. Supports

What Greater Knapweed supports

47 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 13 food 28 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Smeathmann's Aethes Moth Aethes smeathmanniana
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Blue Shield Bug Zicrona caerulea
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Orange-spined Drone Fly Eristalis nemorum
  • Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Cryptic Bumble Bee Bombus cryptarum
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
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