Gelb-Birke
Like other North American birches, gray birch is highly resistant to the bronze birch borer ("Agrilus anxius"). The leaves of the gray birch serve as food for various Lepidoptera, such as the leaf miner moth "Cameraria betulivora". Between about 1930 and 1950, many gray birch trees, along with paper birch and yellow birch ("Betula alleghaniensis"), were affected and killed by birch dieback disease.