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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Laurels, Spicebushes, and Allies
  6. Laurels
  7. California Laurel
  8. California Bay
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What California Bay supports

23 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 hosts 12 food 7 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio multicaudata
  • Western Avocado Leafroller Moth Amorbia cuneanum

Hosted animals All

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

  • Banded Alder Borer Rosalia funebris

Plant eaters All

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

  • California Laurel Aphid Euthoracaphis umbellulariae
  • Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens
  • Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
  • California Scrub-Jay Aphelocoma californica
  • Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
  • Nesting Whitefly Paraleyrodes minei
  • Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus
  • California Towhee Melozone crissalis
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-margined Flower Fly Syrphus opinator
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Western Yellowjacket Vespula pensylvanica
  • Margined White Pieris marginalis
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
  • Echo Azure Celastrina echo

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis

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