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  3. Vascular Plants
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  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
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  7. Jimsonweeds
  8. Desert Thorn-apple
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What Desert Thorn-apple supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 hosts 4 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Carolina Sphinx Manduca sexta
  • Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella on jimsonweeds
  • Pink-spotted Hawkmoth Agrius cingulata on jimsonweeds
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens on jimsonweeds
  • Five-spotted Hawk Moth Manduca quinquemaculatus on jimsonweeds

Hosted animals All

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

  • Datura Weevil Trichobaris compacta
  • Tobacco Stalk Borer Trichobaris mucorea

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on jimsonweeds
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis on jimsonweeds
  • Band-winged Bee Fly Exoprosopa fascipennis on jimsonweeds
  • Oleander Scale Aspidiotus nerii on jimsonweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
  • White Checkered-Skipper Burnsius albezens
  • Spotted-wing Bromeliad Fly Copestylum satur
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina on jimsonweeds

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