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

What California Barberry supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 11 food 26 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Orange Tortrix Moth Argyrotaenia franciscana
  • Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana on barberries
  • Bent-winged Owlet Bleptina caradrinalis on barberries

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Cottony Yew Scale Pulvinaria floccifera
  • Barberry Aphid Liosomaphis berberidis
  • Oleander Scale Aspidiotus nerii
  • Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus on barberries
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Blue Orchard Bee Osmia lignaria
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Shifty Miner Bee Andrena saccata
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