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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Jimsonweeds
  8. Oak-leaved Thorn-apple
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What Oak-leaved Thorn-apple supports

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

Caterpillars All

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

  • Carolina Sphinx Manduca sexta on jimsonweeds
  • Pink-spotted Hawkmoth Agrius cingulata on jimsonweeds
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens on jimsonweeds
  • Five-spotted Hawk Moth Manduca quinquemaculatus on jimsonweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on jimsonweeds
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis on jimsonweeds
  • Orange-legged Drone Fly Eristalis flavipes on jimsonweeds
  • Band-winged Bee Fly Exoprosopa fascipennis on jimsonweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina on jimsonweeds
  • Datura Weevil Trichobaris compacta on jimsonweeds

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