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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Vetches
  8. Bush Vetch
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What Bush Vetch supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 15 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
  • Chionodes lugubrella
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Broadbean Weevil Bruchus rufimanus
  • Fleahopper Halticus apterus
  • Clover Head Weevil Hypera meles
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
  • Cryptic Bumble Bee Bombus cryptarum
  • Banded Mud Bee Megachile ericetorum
  • Mountain Mason Bee Osmia inermis
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