Editing Nyssa sylvatica (section)

===Wildlife===
[[Image:Nyssa sylvatica with mature fruit.jpg|right|thumb|Plant showing autumn coloring and mature fruit]]
''Nyssa sylvatica'' is an important food source for many migrating birds in the fall [autumn]. Its early color change ([[foliar fruit flagging]]) is thought to attract birds to the available fruit, which ripen before many other fall fruits and berries. The fruit is quite marked, dark blue, in clusters of two or three. The sour fruits are eagerly sought by many kinds of birds, including: [[American robin]], [[Swainson's thrush]], [[gray-cheeked thrush]], [[hermit thrush]], [[wood thrush]], [[northern cardinal]], [[northern mockingbird]], [[blue jay]], [[red-bellied woodpecker]], [[yellow-bellied sapsucker]], [[northern flicker]], [[pileated woodpecker]], [[eastern phoebe]], [[brown thrasher]], [[eastern bluebird]], [[European starling]], [[scarlet tanager]], [[grey catbird|gray catbird]], [[cedar waxwing]], and [[American crow]],{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} all primarily eastern North American birds migrating or residing year-round within the tree's range.

The limbs of these trees often deteriorate early, and the decayed holes make excellent dens for [[squirrel]]s, [[raccoon]]s, [[Virginia opossum]]s, as well as nesting sites for feral [[honeybee]]s.

The leaves are [[leaf miner|mined]] by larvae of the [[tupelo leafminer moth]] and eaten by [[forest tent caterpillar]]s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Silvics of North America|volume=2: Hardwoods|editor-last1=Burns|editor-first1=Russell M.|editor-last2=Honkala|editor-first2=Barbara H.|isbn=978-0160292606|chapter=''Nyssa sylvatica'' Marsh.|publisher=US Department of Agriculture|location=Washington DC|year=1990|last1=McGee|first1=Charles E.|last2=Outcalt|first2=Kenneth W.|chapter-url=https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/misc/ag_654/volume_2/nyssa/silvatica.htm|access-date=5 October 2022|url=https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/misc/ag_654/table_of_contents.htm|id=Agriculture Handbook 654}}</ref>

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