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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Boxthorns
  8. Desert Wolfberry
  9. Supports

What Desert Wolfberry supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 5 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Elsa Sphinx Sagenosoma elsa on boxthorns

Plant eaters All

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

  • Copestylum fornax on boxthorns
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on boxthorns
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on boxthorns
  • Verdin Auriparus flaviceps on boxthorns
  • Isabelle's Bromeliad Fly Copestylum isabellina on boxthorns

Flower visitors All

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

  • Queen Danaus gilippus on boxthorns
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on boxthorns
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on boxthorns
  • Eufala Skipper Lerodea eufala on boxthorns
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on boxthorns
  • Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe on boxthorns
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis on boxthorns

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