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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Fig Family
  7. Mulberries
  8. Black Mulberry
  9. Supports

What Black Mulberry supports

33 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 hosts 21 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Many-banded Daggerwing Marpesia chiron
  • Mulberry Leaftier Glyphodes sibillalis
  • Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
  • Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana
  • American Plum Borer Moth Euzophera semifuneralis
  • Glyphodes cyanomichla

Hosted animals All

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

  • Plum Beetle Tetrops praeustus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
  • Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Western Yellowjacket Vespula pensylvanica
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer
  • Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
  • Northwestern Cellar Spider Psilochorus hesperus

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