Several Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) utilize the leaves as food; see List of Lepidoptera that feed on maples.
Spring foods are mainly tree buds and flowers, insects, bird eggs, and seeds of red maple (Acer rubrum), silver maple (Acer saccharinum), and elms.
Vasates quadripedes, the maple bladder-gall mite, is an eriophyid mite in the genus Vasates, which causes galls on the leaves of silver maple (Acer saccharinum), red maple (A. rubrum), and sugar maple (A. saccharum).
Acer saccharinum | Acer saccharum | Acer pseudoplatanus | Acer macrophyllum | Acer Inc. | Acer platanoides | Acer rubrum | Acer palmatum | Empetrum rubrum | Trichophyton rubrum | Acer pictum subsp. mono | Norway Maple (''Acer platanoides'') | Manitoba Maple (''Acer negundo'') | Acer sempervirens | Acer heldreichii | ''Acer griseum | Acer davidii | ''Acer'' |