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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
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  7. Beans
  8. Lima Bean
  9. Supports

What Lima Bean supports

31 native animals
supported in the US
24 caterpillars 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

24 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania
  • Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera ornithogalli
  • Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda
  • Tersa Sphinx Xylophanes tersa
  • Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth Anticarsia gemmatalis
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Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Vegetable Leafminer Liriomyza sativae

Plant eaters All

2 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Chilli Thrips Scirtothrips dorsalis
  • Latania Scale Hemiberlesia lataniae

Flower visitors All

4 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
  • Little Yellow Eurema lisa
  • Western Leafcutter Bee Megachile perihirta

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