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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Staff-vines and Allies
  6. Bittersweet Family
  7. Spindletrees
  8. Japanese Spindle Tree
  9. Supports

What Japanese Spindle Tree supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Cherry Ermine Yponomeuta padella

Hosted animals All

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

  • Plum Beetle Tetrops praeustus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
  • Euonymus Scale Unaspis euonymi
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis
  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus
  • Muscid Fly Helina evecta
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Pale-veined Emerald-bottle Bellardia vulgaris

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