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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Staff-vines and Allies
  6. Bittersweet Family
  7. Spindletrees
  8. Spindle
  9. Supports

What Spindle supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 hosts 10 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Cherry Ermine Yponomeuta padella

Hosted animals All

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

  • Plum Beetle Tetrops praeustus
  • Anisandrus maiche

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Euonymus Scale Unaspis euonymi
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
  • White-lipped Snail Cepaea hortensis
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Hump-backed Beewolf Philanthus gibbosus
  • Orange-bearded Bluebottle Fly Calliphora vomitoria
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa
  • Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua
  • White-winged March Fly Bibio albipennis

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