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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Scentless Plant Bugs
  7. Boxelder Bugs
  8. Western Boxelder Bug
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What supports Western Boxelder Bug

17 native plants
support it in the US
6 food 11 flowers

Food plants All

6 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia
  • Coast Live Oak Quercus agrifolia keystone
  • Golden Yarrow Eriophyllum confertiflorum
  • Coffeeberry Frangula californica
  • Western Sycamore Platanus racemosa
  • Blue Oak Quercus douglasii keystone

Nectar plants All

11 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Pacific Waterleaf Hydrophyllum tenuipes
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Box Elder Acer negundo
  • Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea
  • Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum
  • Brittlebush Encelia farinosa
  • Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor
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