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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Dogwoods, Hydrangeas, and Allies
  6. Dogwood Family
  7. Dogwoods
  8. Cornel
  9. Common Dogwood
  10. Supports

What Common Dogwood supports

31 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 1 hosts 15 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Soothsayer Dart Graphiphora augur
  • Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Cecropia Moth Hyalophora cecropia
  • Birch Leafroller Moth Epinotia solandriana

Hosted animals All

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

  • Phytomyza agromyzina

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
  • Two-spotted Lady Beetle Adalia bipunctata
  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
  • Long-lipped Miner Andrena barbilabris
  • Bull-headed Furrow Bee Lasioglossum zonulus

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