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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Spurge and Allies
  7. Crotons
  8. California Croton
  9. Supports

What California Croton supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 5 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae
  • Citrus Gem Schinia citrinellus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Croton Agrilus Agrilus lacustris
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on crotons
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on crotons
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on crotons
  • Purple Scale Lepidosaphes beckii on crotons

Flower visitors All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Nevada Nomia Dieunomia nevadensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Heterotheca, Baccharis and 9 more
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer
  • Armored Stink Beetle Eleodes armata
  • Sphex lucae
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