Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 60-120cm
Annual, Tufts
Hermaphrodite, Flowering July - October (Earliest: 27.6)

Habitat:	Meadows	Hedge Rows
Pollination:	Many Apidae	Several Vespidae	Several Crabronidae	Many Ichneumonidae
	Several Braconidae	Several Tenthredinidae	Exallonyx ligatus	Arge ochropus
	Platygaster demades	Torymus bedeguaris	Dibrachys cavus	Pediobius saulius
	Figites anthomyiarum	Melanips alienus	Myrmica rubra	Several Lycaenidae
	Coenonympha pamphilus	Several Noctuidae	Several Crambidae	Several Tortricidae
	Several Gelechiidae	Isturgia limbaria	Argyresthia goedartella	Yponomeuta padella
	Plutella xylostella	Gillmeria ochrodactyla	Gillmeria pallidactyla	Anthophila fabriciana
	Coleophora striatipennella	Many Syrphidae	Several Muscidae	Several Anthomyiidae
	Several Tachinidae	Several Empidae	Several Calliphoridae	Sarcophaga carnaria
	Sepsis punctum	Sepsis violacea	Ensina sonchi	Sphenella marginata
	Meromyza saltatrix	Thaumatomyia trifasciata	Palloptera ustulata	Leptosciarella pilosa
	Dilophus febrilis	Platypalpus cursitans	Opomyza germinationis	Scathophaga stercoraria
	Scathophaga suilla	Sylvicola punctatus	Sciara hemerobioides	Physiphora alceae
	Epuraea aestiva	Meligethes aeneus	Brachypterus urticae	Oedemera lurida
	Oedemera virescens	Stenurella melanura	Stictoleptura rubra	Aplocnemus nigricornis
	Anthocomus rufus	Anthrenus fuscus	Anthrenus museorum	Ischnopterapion virens
	Mordella aculeata	Panorpa vulgaris
Parasites:	Septoria tanaceti
Herbivores:	Coleophora trochilella Larva	Several Tortricidae Larvae	Gillmeria ochrodactyla Larva	Cassida stigmatica
	Forficula auricularia	Helicidae
Sapivores:	Several Miridae	Macrosiphoniella persequens	Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria
Florivores:	Eupithecia icterata
Granivores:	Megalocoleus tanaceti
Nests:	Acrocephalus palustris

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Tansy

Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey

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