Animals found on thistles like snails munching on the leaves, butterflies and bees on the flowers, beetles laying eggs into the stems, finches eating the seeds, spiders building their web between the leaves, even dragonflies just perching on it or even when we don't know the reason why it is sitting on a thistle.
I've been asked: What exactly is a thistle? It is not a strictly botanical ...more ↓
Animals found on thistles like snails munching on the leaves, butterflies and bees on the flowers, beetles laying eggs into the stems, finches eating the seeds, spiders building their web between the leaves, even dragonflies just perching on it or even when we don't know the reason why it is sitting on a thistle.
I've been asked: What exactly is a thistle? It is not a strictly botanical term, but refers to plants with prickles on the leaves. While they are mostly in the family Asteraceae and here in tribe Cardueae, there are other plants called thistle, which are allowed here as well. For example: Eryngium, Dipsacus.
Wikipedia has a good article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle
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Thistle fauna - worldwide
susanne-kasimir
created this project on February 5, 2024
