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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Cacti
  7. Barrel Cactuses
  8. Fishhook Barrel Cactus
  9. Supports

What Fishhook Barrel Cactus supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 4 bees 3 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Blue Cactus Borer Cactobrosis fernaldialis

Specialist bees All

4 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Orange-tipped Woodborer Lithurgopsis apicalis Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on barrel cactuses
  • Barrel Cactus Longhorn Epimelissodes duplocinctus Pollen specialist on Ferocactus on barrel cactuses
  • Cactus Bee Diadasia rinconis Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia and Ferocactus on barrel cactuses
  • Barrel Cactus Woodborer Lithurgopsis echinocacti Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on barrel cactuses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus
  • Harris' Antelope Squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii
  • Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • Acmaeodera quadrivittatoides
  • Prickly-pear Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella opuntiae Pollen specialist on Cylindropuntia, Opuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more
  • Dianthidium discors
  • Peridot Sweat Bee Augochlorella pomoniella on barrel cactuses

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