Beech Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...

es, ''Fagus'' species, are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

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Bucculatricidae Bucculatricidae or (Bucculatrigidae) is a family of moths. This small family has representatives in all parts of the world. Some authors place the group as a subfamily of the family Lyonetiidae. Adults of this family are easily overlooked, bein ...

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Bucculatrix packardella ''Bucculatrix packardella'' is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1873. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Ohio, Maine, Michigan, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., D ...

'' * Coleophoridae ** ''

Coleophora albovanescens ''Coleophora albovanescens'' is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in North America, including New York and Nova Scotia. The larvae feed on the leaves of ''Betula'', ''Fagus'', '' Fraxinus'' and ''Ostrya ''Ostrya'' is a genus of ...

'' ** '' Coleophora currucipennella'' - recorded on '' F. crenata'' * Drepanidae ** Oak hook-tip (''Drepana binaria'') * Geometridae **

Common wave The common wave (''Cabera exanthemata'') is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 ''Entomologia Carniolica''. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East. Th ...

(''Cabera exanthemata'') ** Dotted border (''Agriopis marginaria'') **

Feathered thorn The feathered thorn (''Colotois pennaria'') is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. Etymology The common name derives from the very strong feathering on the antennae of the male. Also the species n ...

(''Colotois pennaria'') **

Large emerald The large emerald (''Geometra papilionaria'') is a moth which is the type species for the family Geometridae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East in and around deciduous forests, heathlands, marshland and in settlements ...

(''Geometra papilionaria'') ** Light emerald (''Campaea margaritata'') ** Mottled umber (''Erannis defoliaria'') ** Pale November moth (''Epirrita christyi'') ** Winter moth (''Operophtera brumata'') * Hepialidae ** Ghost moth (''Hepialus humuli'') * Lymantriidae ** Brown-tail (''Euproctis chrysorrhoea'') *

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...

** Miller (''Acronicta leporina'') * Notodontidae **

Rough prominent The rough prominent (''Nadata gibbosa'') is a moth of the family Notodontidae, subfamily Phalerinae. It is also known as the white-dotted prominent and the tawny prominent. The species was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797. This com ...

(''Nadata gibbosa'') * Nymphalidae **

American white admiral ''Limenitis arthemis,'' the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus ''Limenitis''. It has been studied for its evolution of mimicry, and for the several stable hybrid wing patterns w ...

/red-spotted purple (''Limenitis arthemis'') - recorded on

American beech ''Fagus grandifolia'', the American beech or North American beech, is a species of beech tree native to the eastern United States and extreme southeast of Canada. Description ''Fagus grandifolia'' is a large deciduous tree growing to tall, w ...

(''F. grandifolia'') * Saturniidae ** Emperor moth (''Pavonia pavonia'') **

Io moth ''Automeris io'', the Io moth () or peacock moth, is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae. The io moth is also a member of the subfamily Hemileucinae. The name Io comes from Greek mythology in which Io was a mortal lover of ...

(''Automeris io'') * Sphingidae ** Walnut sphinx (''Amorpha juglandis'')

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*{{cite web , last1=Robinson , first1=Gaden S. , last2=Ackery , first2=Phillip R. , last3=Kitching , first3=Ian J. , last4=Beccaloni , first4=George W. , last5=Hernández , first5=Luis M. , name-list-style=amp , date=2010 , url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/list.dsml?&PGenus=Fagus&sort=Family , title=Hostplant Genus: ''Fagus'' , website=HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants , publisher= Natural History Museum, London

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