Caterpillars on Bur Oak

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

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

Nativity unknown

5 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

Striped Hairstreak

on Bur Oak

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Caterpillars · handed down from oaks

What the records say

  • Eaten by · as larvae 4 records on oaks

    Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.

    • Hale, Kayla R. S. and Curlis, John David and Auteri, Giorgia G. and Bishop, Sasha and French, Rowan L. K. and Jones, Lance E. and Mills, Kirby L. and Scholtens, Brian G. and Simons, Meagan and Thompson, Cody and Tourville, Jordon and Valdovinos, Fernanda S. (2024). A highly resolved network reveals the role of terrestrial herbivory in structuring aboveground food webs.

    • Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. (2016). Dataset: NHM Interactions Bank. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk). https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767

    Read by a rule · 3 records

    These expert lists include butterflies' nectar plants, so outside a butterfly's host plant families their entries count as flower visits.

    Read by a rule · 1 record

    This is a list of caterpillar food plants, so an entry outside a butterfly's known host plant families is an error and is left out.

    References

    • Kayla R. S. Hale (Expert)
    • Jordon Tourville (Expert)
    • Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811-8108-8dcd83f224a4/download/nhminteractionsbank.csv> on 14 Jul 2026.
    • Brian G. Scholtens (Expert)
  • Host to · as larvae 1 record on oaks

    Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.

    • Ferrer-Paris JR, Sánchez-Mercado A, Viloria ÁL, Donaldson J (2013) Congruence and Diversity of Butterfly-Host Plant Associations at Higher Taxonomic Levels. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63570. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063570

    References

    • Biodiversity Heritage Library