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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Begonias, Gourds, and Allies
  6. Gourd Family
  7. Gourds, Squash, and Pumpkins
  8. Cucurbita pepo
  9. Squash
  10. Supports

What Squash supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 6 food 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Squash Vine Borer Eichlinia cucurbitae
  • Cucumber Moth Diaphania indica
  • Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth Spoladea recurvalis
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Melonworm Moth Diaphania hyalinata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Squash Bug Anasa tristis
  • Chilli Thrips Scirtothrips dorsalis
  • Potato Leafhopper Empoasca fabae
  • Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
  • Squash Lady Beetle Epilachna borealis
  • Carynota mera

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax
  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis
  • Buffalo Treehopper Stictocephala bisonia
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