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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Redbuds
  8. Western Redbud
  9. Supports

What Western Redbud supports

45 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 hosts 3 food 37 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Western Red-Humped Caterpillar Moth Oedemasia salicis
  • American Dagger Acronicta americana on redbuds
  • Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea on redbuds

Hosted animals All

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

  • Polycesta californica
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus on redbuds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Acmaeodera mariposa
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
  • Greenhouse Whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum on redbuds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • Echo Azure Celastrina echo
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
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