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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Agave and Allies
  7. Yuccas
  8. Mojave Yucca
  9. Supports

What Mojave Yucca supports

23 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 hosts 2 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Yucca Giant-skipper Megathymus yuccae
  • Eastern Yucca Moth Tegeticula yuccasella
  • Sosipatra rileyella

Hosted animals All

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

  • Acmaeoderopsis guttifera on yuccas

Plant eaters All

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

  • Western Leaf-footed Bug Leptoglossus clypealis
  • Dogwood-Milkweed Aphid Aphis asclepiadis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
  • Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
  • Cortodera falsa
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
  • Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii
  • Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens
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