Insects Feeding
on these Plants:
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Typha spp. (Cattails) [Typhaceae]
(Observations are from Vaurie, Hoffman, Marshall, Covell)
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Curculionidae: Sphenophorus minimus (Little Billbug) Vau1983
Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Lygaeidae: Kleidocerys resedae [feeds on seeds of pistillate heads, polyphagous] Hof1996
Lepidoptera (Butterflies, Skippers, & Moths)
Cosmopterigidae: Limnaecia phragmitella (Shy Cosmet) [larvae feed in seedheads] Cv2005 Msh2006; Noctuidae: Archanara oblonga (Oblong Sedge Borer) [young larvae are leaf-miners, older larvae are stem-borers below the water-line] Cv2005, Bellura densa (Pickerelweed Borer Moth) Cv2005, Bellura gortynoides (White-Tailed Diver) [larvae bore into leaves & stems] Cv2005 Msh2006, Bellura obliqua (Cattail Borer Moth) [young larvae mine leaves, older larvae bore into crowns or roots] Cv2005, Simyra insularis (Henry's Marsh Moth) [syn. Simyra henrici] Cv2005; Pyralidae: Dicymolomia julianalis [larvae feed on seedheads & stems, polyphagous] Cv2005