Insects Feeding
on these Plants:
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Spartina spp. (Cordgrass) [Poaceae]
(Observations are from Vaurie, Hoffman, Natural History Museum, ScaleNet)
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Curculionidae: Sphenophorus pertinax pertinax (Cordgrass Billbug) Vau1983
Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Lygaeidae: Cymodema breviceps [feeds on seeds, preferred host plants] Hof1996
Homoptera (Sucking Insects)
Pseudococcidae: Chorizococcus rostellum (Bermuda Grass Mealybug) [feeds mostly on roots; this insect is found in SE USA as far north as Maryland & Tennessee] SN2014
Lepidoptera (Butterflies, Skippers, & Moths)
Hesperiidae: Ancyloxypha numitor (Least Skipper) NHM2010