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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Festuca pallens
  9. Supports

What Festuca pallens supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 12 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami
  • Large Heath Coenonympha tullia

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
  • Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Javesella pellucida
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