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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Ticktrefoils
  8. Desmodium paniculatum
  9. Perplexed Tick-trefoil
  10. Supports

What Perplexed Tick-trefoil supports

29 native animals
supported in the US
20 caterpillars 2 hosts 3 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Anarsioses aberrans
  • Bush-clover Triclonella Triclonella pergandeella
  • Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth Parectopa robiniella on ticktrefoils
  • Dwarf Plume Moth Exelastis pumilio on ticktrefoils
  • Barred Yellow Eurema daira on ticktrefoils
  • Tick-Trefoil Caloptilia Moth Caloptilia violacella on ticktrefoils
  • Alfalfa Leaf Tier Dichomeris acuminatus on ticktrefoils
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Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Dasineura meibomiae on ticktrefoils
  • Desmodium Leaf-mining Beetle Pachyschelus laevigatus on ticktrefoils

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on ticktrefoils
  • Tylopelta gibbera on ticktrefoils
  • Versute Sharpshooter Graphocephala versuta on ticktrefoils

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on ticktrefoils
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on ticktrefoils
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on ticktrefoils
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans on ticktrefoils

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