What Pacific Plum supports

186 native animals
supported in the US

104 caterpillars 4 hosts 35 food 43 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Tricolored Acrobasis Moth Acrobasis tricolorella
• Western Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma californica
• Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens on plums, cherries, and allies
• Great Ash Sphinx Sphinx chersis on plums, cherries, and allies
• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea on plums, cherries, and allies
• Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma disstria on plums, cherries, and allies
• Garden Tiger Arctia caja on plums, cherries, and allies
• Ugly-nest Caterpillar Moth Archips cerasivorana on plums, cherries, and allies

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Hosted animals All

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

• Pacific Flat-Headed Borer Chrysobothris mali
• Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Neandra marginicollis on plums, cherries, and allies
• Flat-headed Apple Tree Borer Chrysobothris femorata on plums, cherries, and allies

Plant eaters All

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

• Plum Finger Gall Mite Eriophyes emarginatae
• Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on plums, cherries, and allies
• Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum on plums, cherries, and allies
• Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on plums, cherries, and allies
• American Robin Turdus migratorius on plums, cherries, and allies
• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Mealy Plum Aphid Hyalopterus pruni on plums, cherries, and allies
• Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia on plums, cherries, and allies

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Flower visitors All

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

• Narrow-legged Miner Bee Andrena angustitarsata
• Joker Miner Bee Andrena scurra Pollen specialist on Physaria
• Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta on plums, cherries, and allies
• Monarch Danaus plexippus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Miserable Mining Bee Andrena miserabilis on plums, cherries, and allies
• Hawthorn Mining Bee Andrena crataegi on plums, cherries, and allies
• Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on plums, cherries, and allies
• Prunus Miner Bee Andrena prunorum on plums, cherries, and allies

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