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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Laurels, Spicebushes, and Allies
  6. Laurels
  7. Laurel
  8. Bay Laurel
  9. Supports

What Bay Laurel supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 1 hosts 10 food 2 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Promethea Silkmoth Callosamia promethea
  • Tulip-tree Silkmoth Callosamia angulifera
  • Omnivorous Platynota Moth Platynota rostrana
  • Western Avocado Leafroller Moth Amorbia cuneanum
  • Bumelia Webworm Moth Urodus parvula
  • Sweetbay Silkmoth Callosamia securifera

Hosted animals All

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

  • Small Gooseberry Sawyer Pristiphora appendiculata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
  • Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
  • Spotted Plant Bug Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Parasitoid Wasp Encyrtus aurantii

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