Ambrosia Artemisiifolia Common Ragweed Photography

Ambrosia artemisiifolia common ragweed is very valuable to many kinds of wildlife. Honeybees have been observed collecting pollen from the male flowers, otherwise flower-visiting insects are not attracted to this plant. Many kinds of insects feed destructively on Common Ragweed. This includes the larvae of long-horned beetles, larvae of weevils, larvae and adults of leaf beetles, larvae of tumbling flower beetles, larvae of leaf-miner flies, plant bugs, Uroleucon ambrosiae Brown Ambrosia Aphid and other aphids, Stictocephala bisonia Buffalo Treehopper and other treehoppers, mealybugs, larvae of Adaina ambrosiae Ragweed Plume Moth and many other moths, and grasshoppers see Insects Table.