What Downy Oak supports

53 native animals
supported in the US

14 caterpillars 2 hosts 34 food 2 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

• Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
• Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana
• Dusky Leafroller Moth Orthotaenia undulana
• Ferruginous Eulia Moth Eulia ministrana
• Rhomboid Tortrix Acleris rhombana
• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
• Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
• Pink-striped Oakworm Moth Anisota virginiensis

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Hosted animals All

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

• Tanbark Borer Phymatodes testaceus
• Ambrosia Beetle Cyclorhipidion bodoanum

Plant eaters All

34 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
• Violet Tanbark Beetle Callidium violaceum
• Oak Aphid Tuberculatus annulatus

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Flower visitors All

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

• Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
• Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

• Euplectrus