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Caterpillars on Thicket Bean

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

Nativity unknown

1 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

Painted Lady

on Thicket Bean

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Caterpillars · handed down from beans

What the records say

  • Eaten by · as larvae 1 record on beans

    Recorded on beans, and handed down to its species.

    • NHM Interactions Bank 1 record

      Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. (2016). Dataset: NHM Interactions Bank. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk). https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767

    Read by a rule · 1 record

    This is a list of caterpillar food plants, so an entry outside a butterfly's known host plant families is an error and is left out.

    References

    • Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811-8108-8dcd83f224a4/download/nhminteractionsbank.csv> on 14 Jul 2026.