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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Boxthorns
  8. Anderson Thornbush
  9. Supports

What Anderson Thornbush supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Elsa Sphinx Sagenosoma elsa on boxthorns

Hosted animals All

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

  • Haldeman's Green Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa haldemani

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
  • Copestylum fornax on boxthorns
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on boxthorns
  • Verdin Auriparus flaviceps on boxthorns
  • Isabelle's Bromeliad Fly Copestylum isabellina on boxthorns

Flower visitors All

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

  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
  • California Patch Chlosyne californica
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
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