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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Oleaster Family
  7. Oleasters
  8. Russian Olive
  9. Supports

What Russian Olive supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 7 food 16 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cecropia Moth Hyalophora cecropia
  • Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus
  • Rosewing Moth Sideridis rosea

Plant eaters All

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

  • Thistle Aphid Capitophorus elaeagni
  • Polygonum Aphid Capitophorus hippophaes
  • Common Raccoon Procyon lotor
  • Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus
  • Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
  • Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Western Carpenter Bee Xylocopa californica
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
  • Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
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