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  3. Vascular Plants
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  8. Scale-leaf Junipers
  9. Rocky Mountain Juniper
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What Rocky Mountain Juniper supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
25 caterpillars 6 hosts 22 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Macaria adonis
  • Behr's Pero Moth Pero behrensaria
  • Stamnoctenis morrisata
  • Thera otisi
  • Henricus infernalis
  • Porcelain Gray Protoboarmia porcelaria
  • Dark-spotted Palthis Moth Palthis angulalis
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Chrysobothris ignicollis
  • Chrysobothris texana
  • Juniper Urn Gall Midge Walshomyia juniperina on junipers
  • Juniper Tip Midge Oligotrophus betheli on junipers
  • Gyascutus carolinensis on junipers
  • Megastigmus on junipers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mountain-juniper Spittlebug Clastoptera doeringae
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius on junipers
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on junipers
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus on junipers
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata on junipers
  • Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator on junipers
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