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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Locust Trees
  8. Bristly Locust
  9. Supports

What Bristly Locust supports

39 native animals
supported in the US
33 caterpillars 2 hosts 1 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth Parectopa robiniella
  • Black Locust Leafminer Macrosaccus robiniella
  • Chrysaster ostensackenella
  • Banded Tussock Moth Halysidota tessellaris
  • Io Moth Automeris io
  • Dusky-backed Filatima Moth Filatima pseudacaciella
  • Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis on locust trees
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Ornate Yellow-marked Buprestid Acmaeodera ornata on locust trees
  • Locust Gall Midge Obolodiplosis robiniae on locust trees

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Locust Treehopper Vanduzea arquata

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Hobomok Skipper Lon hobomok
  • Stictocephala brevitylus on locust trees

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