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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Amaranths
  7. Saltbushes
  8. Desert Holly
  9. Supports

What Desert Holly supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 3 hosts 2 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Mojave Sootywing Hesperopsis libya on saltbushes
  • Nutmeg Moth Anarta trifolii on saltbushes
  • Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus on saltbushes
  • Woodgrain Rivulet Perizoma custodiata on saltbushes
  • Sugarbeet Crown Borer Moth Ancylosis undulatella on saltbushes

Hosted animals All

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

  • Saltbush Woolly Stem Gall Midge Asphondylia floccosa on saltbushes
  • Tumor Stem Gall Midge Asphondylia atriplicis on saltbushes
  • Neolasioptera willistoni on saltbushes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on saltbushes
  • Pale-winged Desert Cicada Okanagodes gracilis on saltbushes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
  • Leafhopper Assassin Bug Zelus renardii
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis
  • California Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

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