What Fire Cherry supports

489 native animals
supported in the US

320 caterpillars 12 hosts 63 food 94 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Red-spotted Admiral Limenitis arthemis
• Striped Hairstreak Satyrium liparops
• Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma americana
• Dark-spotted Palthis Moth Palthis angulalis
• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
• White-marked Tussock Moth Orgyia leucostigma
• Io Moth Automeris io
• Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana

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Hosted animals All

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

• Agrilaxia flavimana on plums, cherries, and allies
• Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Apple Twig Borer Amphicerus bicaudatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Aegomorphus modestus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Contarinia cerasiserotinae on plums, cherries, and allies
• Flat-headed Hardwood Borer Dicerca divaricata on plums, cherries, and allies
• Bimaculate Longhorn Beetle Molorchus bimaculatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Spotted Longhorn Beetle Hyperplatys aspersus on plums, cherries, and allies

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Plant eaters All

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

• American Beaver Castor canadensis
• American Robin Turdus migratorius
• Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana
• White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
• Common Raccoon Procyon lotor
• Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
• Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
• American Black Bear Ursus americanus

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Flower visitors All

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

• Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
• Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus
• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
• Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
• Common Aerial Yellowjacket Dolichovespula arenaria
• Northern Azure Celastrina lucia
• Milwaukee Mining Bee Andrena milwaukeensis

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