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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Begonias, Gourds, and Allies
  6. Gourd Family
  7. Melothria
  8. Creeping Cucumber
  9. Supports

What Creeping Cucumber supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cucumberworm Moth Diaphania modialis
  • Cucumber Moth Diaphania indica on Melothria

Plant eaters All

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

  • Squash Lady Beetle Epilachna borealis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Julia Heliconian Dryas iulia
  • Westwood's Yellow Eurema westwoodii

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