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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Amaranths
  7. Saltbushes
  8. Spiny Saltbush
  9. Supports

What Spiny Saltbush supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 4 hosts 2 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mojave Sootywing Hesperopsis libya on saltbushes
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis on saltbushes
  • Nutmeg Moth Anarta trifolii on saltbushes
  • Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus on saltbushes
  • Woodgrain Rivulet Perizoma custodiata on saltbushes
  • Sugarbeet Crown Borer Moth Ancylosis undulatella on saltbushes

Hosted animals All

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

  • Saltbush Woolly Stem Gall Midge Asphondylia floccosa on saltbushes
  • Tumor Stem Gall Midge Asphondylia atriplicis on saltbushes
  • Neolasioptera willistoni on saltbushes
  • Saltbush Blister Gall Midge Asphondylia atriplicicola on saltbushes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on saltbushes
  • Pale-winged Desert Cicada Okanagodes gracilis on saltbushes

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