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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. New World Mesquites
  8. Mesquite
  9. Supports

What Mesquite supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 hosts 4 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth Syssphinx heiligbrodti
  • Hubbard's Silk Moth Syssphinx hubbardi
  • Juno Buckmoth Hemileuca juno

Hosted animals All

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

  • Painted Hickory Borer Megacyllene caryae

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
  • Harris' Antelope Squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii
  • Largus cinctus
  • Agrilus pectoralis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Megachile chichimeca
  • Perdita larreae Pollen specialist on Larrea

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