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Wild Geranium
<br />nectar/pollen: mining bees (including the specialist Andrena distans), small carpenter bees, small sweat bees, sweat bees,
<br />orchard mason bees, bumble bees, cuckoo bees, syrphid flies, thick-headed flies,fruitworm beetle
<br />foliage: Leafmining Moth, White -Marked Tussock Moth
<br />Swamp Milkweed
<br />nectar: butterflies and moths (including small skippers, monarchs, fritillaries, red admirals, sulphurs, white, swallowtails and
<br />crescents), yellow -faced bees, bumblebees, sweat bees, green sweat bees, small resin bees, leafcutter bees, Great
<br />Black Wasp, Great Golden Digger Wasp, square -headed wasps, paper wasps, yellowjackets, bee flies, green bottle
<br />flies, tachinid flies, syrphid flies, red milkweed beetles, Milkweed Leaf Beetle, soldier beetles, long -horned beetles
<br />foliage: Monarch Butterfly, Queen Butterfly
<br />Mountain Mint
<br />nectar: bumble bees, long -horned bees, green sweat bees, yellow -faced bees, small resin bees, Banded Hairstreak Butterfly,
<br />paper wasps, thynnid wasps, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Great Black Wasp, cuckoo wasps, beewolves, potter wasps,
<br />grass -carrying wasps, soldier flies, syrphid flies, wedge-shaped beetles, ants
<br />New England Aster
<br />nectar/pollen: important fall food source for butterflies and moths, mining bees (including the specialist Andrena simplex),
<br />bumble bees, small carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, long -horned bees, cuckoo bees, green sweat bees, bee
<br />flies, syrphid flies, soldier beetles
<br />foliage: Pearl Crescent Butterfly, Canadian Sonia Moth
<br />Blue vervain
<br />nectar: many types of butterflies, sweat bees, green sweat bees, small carpenter bees, bumble bees, long -horned bees,
<br />leafcutter bees, mining bees (including the specialist Calliopsis nebraskensis), bee flies, syrphid flies, thick-headed flies
<br />foliage: Verbena Moth
<br />Culver's Root
<br />nectar/pollen: many butterflies, bumble bees, leafcutter bees, sweat bees, yellow -faced bees, long -horned bees, sweat bees,
<br />green sweat bees, thread -waisted wasps, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Great Black Wasp, syrphid flies, tachinid
<br />flies, thick-headed flies
<br />foliage: Culver's Root Borer Moth
<br />Wild Bergamot
<br />nectar/pollen: many butterflies and moths (including the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth), "one of the best forage plants for
<br />bumble bees," long -horned bees, cuckoo bees, green sweat bees, sweat bees, leafcutter bees, wood carder
<br />bees, small resin bees, the specialist Black Sweat Bee (Dufourea monardae), mason wasps, Great Black Wasp,
<br />bee flies, soldier beetles, Banded Long -Horned Beetle
<br />foliage: Hermit Sphinx Moth, snout moths
<br />Golden Alexanders
<br />nectar/pollen: azure butterflies, mining bees (including the specialist Andrena ziziae), mason bees, bumble bees, sweat bees,
<br />yellow -faced bees, small carpenter bees, Wood -Boring Mason Wasp, potter wasps, syrphid flies, tachinid flies,
<br />crab spiders, soldier beetles, ebony bugs, Ladybird Beetle
<br />foliage: Black Swallowtail, Ozark Swallowtail, Rigid Sunflower Borer
<br />Poke Milkweed: host plant for Monarch, Unexpected Cycnia Moth, Delicate Cycnia Moth
<br />Honewort: host plant for Black Swallowtail
<br />Sweet Joe Pye Weed: host plant for 40 insect species
<br />False Nettle: host plant for Red Admiral, Question Mark, Eastern Comma, and others
<br />• Though Wood Nettle would be preferred for a more precise restoration to a Southern Terrace Forest ecosystem (and it's
<br />also quite beautiful), Wood Nettle is very aggressively rhizomatous AND painful to touch. False nettle appears to have
<br />most of the benefits of Wood Nettle (including for foraging and fiber use), but without those drawbacks.
<br />Fringed Loosestrife: an essential food source for the rare oil bees (Macropis spp.), which depend on Lysimachia
<br />species. "Floral oils are mixed with pollen provisions and used to waterproof the linings of the cell wall (cane et al. 1983),
<br />allowing Macropis to nest in the damp soils favored by Lysimachia species." (from ResearchGate.net) I contacted the Specialist
<br />Bee specialist with the U of M and was told this: "I would hold hope for the oil bees. The only place I have seen them IRL
<br />nature is at Eloise Butler Wildflower garden, at a pretty small spot of Lysimachia in the middle of the city. You may be surprised
<br />at their ability to find it once it's there!"
<br />Hairy Wood Chess: turkey feed on the seeds
<br />Nodding Fescue: host plant for Indian Skipper
<br />Bottlebrush Grass: host plant for Northern Pearly -Eye
<br />Witch Hazel: important late -season nectar source, host plant for Witch Hazel Dagger Moth
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