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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Agave and Allies
  7. Yuccas
  8. Joshua Trees
  9. Western Joshua Tree
  10. Supports

What Western Joshua Tree supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 hosts 1 food 18 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Western Joshua Tree Moth Tegeticula synthetica
  • Yucca Giant-skipper Megathymus yuccae
  • Sosipatra rileyella
  • Chionodes lophosella
  • Eastern Joshua Tree Moth Tegeticula antithetica

Hosted animals All

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

  • Yucca Weevil Scyphophorus yuccae
  • Acmaeoderopsis guttifera on yuccas

Plant eaters All

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

  • Yucca Sharpshooter Cuerna yuccae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum
  • Tricolored Blackbird Agelaius tricolor
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris
  • Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
  • Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
  • Western Leaf-footed Bug Leptoglossus clypealis
  • Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
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