What Common Ivy supports

48 native animals
supported in the US

7 caterpillars 14 food 26 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

• Small Dusty Wave Idaea seriata
• Southern Flannel Moth Megalopyge opercularis
• Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth Harrisina americana
• Many-banded Daggerwing Marpesia chiron
• Dot-lined White Artace cribrarius
• Lesser Grapevine Looper Moth Eulithis diversilineata
• False Celery Leaftier Udea profundalis

Plant eaters All

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

• Ivy Aphid Aphis hederae
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
• Red Fox Vulpes vulpes

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Flower visitors All

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

• Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
• Black-horned Smoothtail Epistrophe grossulariae
• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
• Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
• Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
• Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
• Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
• Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus

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Sheltered animals All

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

• Carolinian Elegant Meromacrus acutus