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  8. Carolina Vetch
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What Carolina Vetch supports

87 native animals
supported in the US
11 caterpillars 7 food 69 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • Micrurapteryx occulta
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea on vetches
  • Green Cloverworm Moth Hypena scabra on vetches
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on vetches
  • Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis on vetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on vetches
  • Dwarf Plume Moth Exelastis pumilio on vetches
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on vetches
  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on vetches
  • Boll's Grasshopper Spharagemon bolli on vetches
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris on vetches
  • Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum on vetches
  • Clover Head Weevil Hypera meles on vetches
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on vetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Collinsia Mason Osmia collinsiae
  • Osmia subfasciata
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