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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Chestnuts
  8. Sweet Chestnut
  9. Supports

What Sweet Chestnut supports

52 native animals
supported in the US
36 caterpillars 12 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cameraria castaneaeella
  • American Dagger Acronicta americana
  • Yellow-necked Caterpillar Moth Datana ministra
  • Skiff Moth Prolimacodes badia
  • Crowned Slug Moth Isa textula
  • Spiny Oakworm Moth Anisota stigma
  • Yellow-striped Oakworm Moth Anisota peigleri
  • Hag Moth Phobetron pithecium
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Oak Lace Bug Corythucha arcuata
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Chymomyza amoena
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
  • Tanbark Borer Phymatodes testaceus
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon

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