What Wild Cowpea supports

32 native animals
supported in the US

7 caterpillars 2 food 23 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
• Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius
• Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth Anticarsia gemmatalis
• Anarsioses aberrans
• Red-Washed Ufa Ufa rubedinella
• Bean-leaf Webworm Moth Omiodes indicata on cowpea
• Mercurial Skipper Proteides mercurius on cowpea

Plant eaters All

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

• Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus on cowpea

Flower visitors All

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

• Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
• American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
• Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
• Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor
• Barred Yellow Eurema daira
• Three-spotted Skipper Cymaenes tripunctus
• Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
• Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus

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