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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Thorn Trees
  8. Whitethorn Acacia
  9. Supports

What Whitethorn Acacia supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
1 bees 5 food 3 flowers

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Perdita punctosignata Pollen specialist on Parkinsonia, Vachellia and Prosopis on thorn trees

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
  • Van Duzee Treehopper Vanduzea segmentata
  • Cream Grasshopper Cibolacris parviceps
  • Chicatana Leafcutter Ant Atta mexicana
  • Flatormenis saucia

Flower visitors All

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

  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina
  • Giant Agave Bug Acanthocephala thomasi
  • Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae on thorn trees

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