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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Lupines
  8. Skyblue Lupine
  9. Supports

What Skyblue Lupine supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
16 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 24 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Genista Broom Moth Uresiphita reversalis
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on lupines
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing Erynnis baptisiae on lupines
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on lupines
  • Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis on lupines
  • Henry's Elfin Callophrys henrici on lupines
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on lupines
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Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Blueberry Digger Bee Habropoda laboriosa Pollen specialist on Vaccinium, Lupinus and Cercis on lupines

Plant eaters All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on lupines

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Swarthy Skipper Nastra lherminier
  • Northern Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum notatum
  • Slender Resin Bee Megachile exilis
  • Perplexing Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum perplexum
  • Metallic Trailing Ant Monomorium viridum
  • Reticulate Dialictus Lasioglossum reticulatum
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on lupines
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