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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Conifers
  5. Conifers
  6. Pine Family
  7. Spruces
  8. Sitka Spruce
  9. Supports

What Sitka Spruce supports

106 native animals
supported in the US
83 caterpillars 3 hosts 18 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pine White Neophasia menapia
  • Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma disstria
  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Mottled Gray Carpet Cladara limitaria
  • Gray Spruce Looper Moth Caripeta divisata
  • Brown Angle Shades Phlogophora periculosa
  • Pine Tube Moth Argyrotaenia pinatubana
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Black Fire Beetle Melanophila acuminata
  • Dark Jewel Beetle Dicerca tenebrosa on spruces
  • Ribbed Pine Borer Rhagium inquisitor on spruces

Plant eaters All

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

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
  • Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
  • Douglas's Squirrel Tamiasciurus douglasii
  • Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
  • Pineapple-gall Adelgid Adelges abietis
  • Douglas Fir Adelgid Adelges cooleyi
  • Spruce Aphid Elatobium abietinum
  • American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus on spruces
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus on spruces

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