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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Birches and Allies
  7. Birches
  8. Silver Birch
  9. Supports

What Silver Birch supports

95 native animals
supported in the US
47 caterpillars 2 hosts 43 food 2 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
  • Brown Birch Slender Parornix betulae
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Clouded Slender Caloptilia populetorum
  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Purplish Birch-miner Moth Eriocrania semipurpurella
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Agromyza alnibetulae
  • Early Birch Leaf Edgeminer Fenusella nana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Birch Catkin Bug Kleidocerys resedae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Birch Shield Bug Elasmostethus interstinctus
  • Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta
  • Red-headed Ash Borer Neoclytus acuminatus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Anthocoris antevolens

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