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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Conifers
  5. Conifers
  6. Pine Family
  7. Hemlocks
  8. Western Hemlock
  9. Supports

What Western Hemlock supports

104 native animals
supported in the US
94 caterpillars 6 food 2 flowers 2 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pine White Neophasia menapia
  • Hemlock Looper Moth Lambdina fiscellaria
  • Western Pine Elfin Callophrys eryphon
  • Western Spruce Budworm Moth Choristoneura occidentalis
  • Western False Hemlock Looper Nepytia freemani
  • Pale Beauty Campaea perlata
  • Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana
  • Porcelain Gray Protoboarmia porcelaria
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus
  • Platycotis maritima
  • White-spotted Sawyer Monochamus scutellatus on hemlocks
  • Red-shouldered Pine Borer Stictoleptura canadensis on hemlocks
  • Spruce Zebra Beetle Xylotrechus undulatus on hemlocks
  • Pygoleptura nigrella on hemlocks

Flower visitors All

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

  • Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens
  • Mountain Beaver Aplodontia rufa

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis
  • Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

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