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| General Description |
This habitat is defined by the Honey Locust. Determining species include Honey Locust itself, as well as its set of obligate herbivores.
The distribution and ecology of this group appears to be unique in North Carolina. Honey Locust is primarily a Midwestern species and its occurrence east of the Appalachians may be artificial, although of long-standing: European settlers planted it around their dwellings as well as out in pastures where livestock could forage on its seed pods. Most of the occurrences in North Carolina are found around old abandoned homesites -- sometimes deep in the woods -- or around the edges of old pastures.
In a few places in the state, virtually the entire fauna of Honey Locust herbivores has been found together, posing questions as to how these groups were assembled -- through separate dispersal from their original Midwestern range, through transport of larvae along with transplanted plants (unlikely if only seeds were transported), or from previously undiscovered native populations of the plants?
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| Abiotic Factors |
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| Biotic Structure |
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| Co-evolved Species Groups |
Phagic and Competitory Symbioses:
Gleditsia triacanthos // Catocala illecta-Catocala innubens-Catocala minuta-Heteropacha rileyana-Mellilla xanthometata-Sphingicampa bicolor-Sphingicampa bisecta-Spiloloma lunilinea-Tlascala reductella
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| Determining Species |
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| Estimated Risk to the Determining Species |
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| Estimated Risk to the Co-evolved Species Groups |
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| Estimated Security of the Habitat |
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| Index of Habitat Imperilment |
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| Identified Risks |
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| Observed Trends |
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| Distribution Map | |
| Distribution |
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| Major Conservation Reserves |
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| Priority Areas for Surveys and Conservation Protection |
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| Stewardship and Management Recommendations |
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| References |
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| Updated on |
2022-01-01 00:34:27 |
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