What Field Elm supports

41 native animals
supported in the US

15 caterpillars 2 hosts 23 food 1 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
• Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana
• Dusky Leafroller Moth Orthotaenia undulana
• Fall Webworm Moth Hyphantria cunea
• Imperial Moth Eacles imperialis
• Io Moth Automeris io
• Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
• Cecropia Moth Hyalophora cecropia

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Hosted animals All

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

• Plum Beetle Tetrops praeustus
• Ambrosia Beetle Cyclorhipidion bodoanum

Plant eaters All

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

• Rice Root Aphid Tetraneura akinire
• Elm Sack Gall Aphid Tetraneura ulmi
• Elm Leaf Gall Mite Aceria campestricola
• Tanbark Borer Phymatodes testaceus
• Elm Bark Beetle Scolytus multistriatus
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula

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Flower visitors All

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

• Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus