Insects Feeding
on this Plant:
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Spartina pectinata (Prairie Cordgrass) [Poaceae]
(Observations are from Hoffman, DeLong, Knight, Stannard)
Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Lygaeidae: Ischnodemus falicus [feeds on seeds, preferred host plant] Hof1996; Miridae: Trigonostylus tarsalis Kn1941
Homoptera (Sucking Insects)
Cicadellidae: Cicadula smithi Dlg1948
Thysanoptera (Thrips)
Phlaeothripidae: Haplothrips shacklefordi [oligophagous] St1968; Thripidae: Anaphothrips sandersoni [found on seedheads] St1968, Chirothrips texanus St1968