What Sessile Oak supports

53 native animals
supported in the US

12 caterpillars 1 hosts 38 food 1 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

• Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
• Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
• Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana
• Dusky Leafroller Moth Orthotaenia undulana
• Ferruginous Eulia Moth Eulia ministrana
• Rhomboid Tortrix Acleris rhombana
• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
• Pink-striped Oakworm Moth Anisota virginiensis

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Hosted animals All

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

• Ambrosia Beetle Cyclorhipidion bodoanum

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
• Violet Tanbark Beetle Callidium violaceum
• Oak Aphid Tuberculatus annulatus
• Oak Lace Bug Corythucha arcuata

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Flower visitors All

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

• Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

• Aprostocetus