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What Fortune's Spindle supports

54 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 hosts 8 food 41 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Cecropia Moth Hyalophora cecropia
  • Cherry Ermine Yponomeuta padella

Hosted animals All

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

  • Plum Beetle Tetrops praeustus
  • Anisandrus maiche

Plant eaters All

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

  • Euonymus Scale Unaspis euonymi
  • Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
  • Elegant Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia elegans
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • Sphex lucae
  • Oleander Scale Aspidiotus nerii
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia mexicana
  • Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua
  • Widow Yellowjacket Vespula vidua
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Bald-faced Hornet Dolichovespula maculata
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
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