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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Barberry Family
  7. Barberries
  8. Japanese Barberry
  9. Supports

What Japanese Barberry supports

46 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 8 food 36 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
  • Barberry Geometer Moth Rheumaptera meadii

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Barberry Aphid Liosomaphis berberidis
  • Birch Catkin Bug Kleidocerys resedae
  • Oleander Scale Aspidiotus nerii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Milwaukee Mining Bee Andrena milwaukeensis
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Bombus terricola
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
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