What Buckbrush supports

144 native animals
supported in the US

48 caterpillars 6 hosts 26 food 64 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica
• Western Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina
• Pale Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon
• Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus
• Fruit-tree Leafroller Moth Archips argyrospila
• Western Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma californica
• Sulphur Moth Hesperumia sulphuraria
• Annaphila decia

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Hosted animals All

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

• Dicerca hornii
• Acmaeodera amplicollis
• Acmaeodera angelica
• Acmaeodera prorsa
• Ceanothus Bud Gall Midge Asphondylia ceanothi on california-lilacs
• Pacific Flat-Headed Borer Chrysobothris mali on california-lilacs

Plant eaters All

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

• Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
• White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
• Merriam's Chipmunk Neotamias merriami
• Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta
• Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
• Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
• Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
• Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris

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Flower visitors All

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

• Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
• Aeolothrips kuwanaii
• Echo Azure Celastrina echo
• W-labrum Miner Andrena w-scripta
• Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
• Annaphila depicta
• Narrow-legged Miner Bee Andrena angustitarsata
• Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica

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