What Butterfly Pea supports

19 native animals
supported in the US

5 caterpillars 1 food 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Tentiform Bean Leafminer Porphyrosela desmodiella
• Zarucco Duskywing Erynnis zarucco
• Bean-leaf Webworm Moth Omiodes indicata on butterfly peas
• Peacock Brenthia Moth Brenthia pavonacella on butterfly peas
• Cosmopterix attenuatella on butterfly peas

Plant eaters All

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

• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus

Flower visitors All

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

• American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
• Clouded Skipper Lerema accius
• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
• Delaware Skipper Anatrytone logan
• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Common Buckeye Junonia coenia
• Zabulon Skipper Lon zabulon

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