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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Fig Family
  7. Figs
  8. Chinese Banyan
  9. Supports

What Chinese Banyan supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 6 food 2 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ruddy Daggerwing Marpesia petreus
  • Fig Sphinx Pachylia ficus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
  • Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
  • Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
  • Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
  • Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis
  • Hairy-tailed Fig Aphid Greenidea ficicola

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Sycophila
  • Ormyrus

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