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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Milkpeas
  8. Eastern Milk-pea
  9. Supports

What Eastern Milk-pea supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 food 17 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Zarucco Duskywing Erynnis zarucco
  • Io Moth Automeris io
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on milkpeas
  • Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth Parectopa robiniella on milkpeas

Plant eaters All

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

  • Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Perplexing Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum perplexum
  • Manee's Nomia Nomia maneei
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee Megachile mendica
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata
  • Northern Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum notatum
  • Petulant Leafcutter Bee Megachile petulans
  • Slender Resin Bee Megachile exilis
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