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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Staff-vines and Allies
  6. Bittersweet Family
  7. Bittersweets
  8. American Bittersweet
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What American Bittersweet supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 7 food 18 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Tan Wave Pleuroprucha insulsaria
  • Curved-toothed Geometer Moth Eutrapela clemataria
  • Zigzag Herpetogramma Moth Herpetogramma thestealis on bittersweets

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
  • Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
  • Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
  • Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
  • Two-Marked Treehopper Enchenopa binotata on bittersweets

Flower visitors All

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

  • Grasshopper Bee Fly Systoechus vulgaris
  • Shuckard's Wasp Pemphredon inornata
  • Spurred Ceratina Ceratina calcarata
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Black-horned Gem Fly Microchrysa polita
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Cresson's Mining Bee Andrena cressonii
  • Cryptorhopalum triste
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