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  8. Ash Meadows Milkvetch
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What Ash Meadows Milkvetch supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 2 bees 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on milkvetches
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on milkvetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on milkvetches
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on milkvetches
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus on milkvetches
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola on milkvetches
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica on milkvetches
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni on milkvetches
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Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Porter's Digger Bee Anthophora porterae Pollen specialist on Astragalus on milkvetches
  • Pallid Habropoda Habropoda pallida Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Psorothamnus, Parkinsonia and 1 more on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii on milkvetches
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on milkvetches
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus on milkvetches
  • Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara on milkvetches
  • Prunus Miner Bee Andrena prunorum on milkvetches

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