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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Begonias, Gourds, and Allies
  6. Gourd Family
  7. Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins
  8. Winter Squash
  9. Supports

What Winter Squash supports

23 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 8 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni
  • Tessellate Dart Euxoa tessellata
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania
  • Subgothic Dart Feltia subgothica

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Arctic Field Slug Deroceras agreste
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
  • Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
  • Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Pruinose Squash Bee Xenoglossa pruinosa Pollen specialist on Cucurbita
  • American Snout Fly Rhingia nasica

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