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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Ageratums
  8. Billygoat Weed
  9. Supports

What Billygoat Weed supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 2 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea
  • Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens
  • Dwarf Tawny Wave Cyclophora nanaria
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni

Plant eaters All

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

  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Great Southern White Ascia monuste
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata

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