What Sand Cherry supports

444 native animals
supported in the US

291 caterpillars 13 hosts 53 food 87 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana
• Ugly-nest Caterpillar Moth Archips cerasivorana
• Wild Cherry Sphinx Sphinx drupiferarum
• Acleris oxycoccana
• Cecropia Moth Hyalophora cecropia
• Henry's Elfin Callophrys henrici
• Peachtree Borer Moth Synanthedon exitiosa
• Pallid Leafroller Moth Xenotemna pallorana

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Hosted animals All

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

• Agrilaxia flavimana on plums, cherries, and allies
• Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Apple Twig Borer Amphicerus bicaudatus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Aegomorphus modestus on plums, cherries, and allies
• Contarinia cerasiserotinae on plums, cherries, and allies
• Pacific Flat-Headed Borer Chrysobothris mali on plums, cherries, and allies
• Flat-headed Hardwood Borer Dicerca divaricata on plums, cherries, and allies
• Bimaculate Longhorn Beetle Molorchus bimaculatus on plums, cherries, and allies

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Plant eaters All

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

• Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
• Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on plums, cherries, and allies
• Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum on plums, cherries, and allies
• Plum Finger Gall Mite Eriophyes emarginatae on plums, cherries, and allies
• Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on plums, cherries, and allies
• Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa on plums, cherries, and allies
• American Robin Turdus migratorius on plums, cherries, and allies
• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on plums, cherries, and allies

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Flower visitors All

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

• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
• Juvenal's Duskywing Erynnis juvenalis
• Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon
• Sleepy Duskywing Erynnis brizo
• Neighborly Mining Bee Andrena vicina

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