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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Beans
  8. Thicket Bean
  9. Supports

What Thicket Bean supports

43 native animals
supported in the US
37 caterpillars 6 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
  • Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania
  • Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda on beans
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon on beans
  • Salt Marsh Moth Estigmene acrea on beans
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica on beans
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-legged Grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum on beans
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis on beans
  • Fall Field Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus on beans
  • Potato Leafhopper Empoasca fabae on beans
  • Seedcorn Maggot Delia platura on beans
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on beans

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