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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Wax Trees and Shrubs
  7. Bayberries
  8. Wax Myrtle
  9. Supports

What Wax Myrtle supports

59 native animals
supported in the US
23 caterpillars 1 hosts 32 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Red-banded Hairstreak Calycopis cecrops
  • Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus
  • Spotted Apatelodes Moth Apatelodes torrefacta
  • Crowned Slug Moth Isa textula
  • Apical Prominent Clostera apicalis
  • Chain-dotted Geometer Cingilia catenaria
  • Bay Underwing Catocala badia
  • Packard's White Slug Moth Alarodia slossoniae
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Chrysobothris chrysoela

Plant eaters All

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

  • Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
  • Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
  • Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
  • Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
  • Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
  • Eratoneura comoides
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
  • Two-lined Spittlebug Prosapia bicincta
  • Blueberry Digger Bee Habropoda laboriosa Pollen specialist on Vaccinium, Lupinus and Cercis

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