What Meadow Fescue supports

29 native animals
supported in the US

4 caterpillars 24 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

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

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum
• Javesella pellucida
• Xestocephalus superbus
• Plant Bug Pithanus maerkelii

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Flower visitors All

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

• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum