What Common Box supports

32 native animals
supported in the US

2 caterpillars 10 food 20 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
• Banded Tussock Moth Halysidota tessellaris

Plant eaters All

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

• Box Sucker Psylla buxi
• Spanioneura fonscolombii
• Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Latania Scale Hemiberlesia lataniae

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Flower visitors All

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

• Unequal Cellophane Bee Colletes inaequalis
• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
• Long-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes americanus
• Monarch Danaus plexippus
• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita
• Eastern Yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons

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