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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Hyacinth-bean
  8. Hyacinth Bean
  9. Supports

What Hyacinth Bean supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 2 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina
  • Bean-leaf Webworm Moth Omiodes indicata
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea
  • Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth Anticarsia gemmatalis
  • Fire-flag Plume Moth Sphenarches anisodactylus
  • Koa Seedworm Cryptophlebia illepida
  • Janseodes melanospila

Plant eaters All

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

  • Indian Cotton Jassid Amrasca biguttula
  • Latania Scale Hemiberlesia lataniae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius
  • American Snout Libytheana carinenta

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