What Downy Birch supports

97 native animals
supported in the US

57 caterpillars 2 hosts 37 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

57 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

• Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
• Drab Birch Pigmy Stigmella lapponica
• Brown Birch Slender Parornix betulae
• Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
• Peppered Moth Biston betularia
• Common Birch Pigmy Stigmella betulicola
• Purplish Birch-miner Moth Eriocrania semipurpurella
• Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus

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Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

• Amber-marked Birch Leaf-miner Sawfly Profenusa thomsoni
• Late Birch Leaf Edgeminer Sawfly Heterarthrus nemoratus

Plant eaters All

37 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta
• Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
• Poplar-and-Willow Borer Cryptorhynchus lapathi
• Black-kneed Capsid Blepharidopterus angulatus

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Flower visitors All

1 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

• Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis