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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Sensitive Plants
  8. Velvetpod Mimosa
  9. Supports

What Velvetpod Mimosa supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 3 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mimosa Yellow Eurema nise on sensitive plants
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on sensitive plants
  • White-marked Tussock Moth Orgyia leucostigma on sensitive plants
  • Io Moth Automeris io on sensitive plants
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola on sensitive plants
  • Tricolor Buck Moth Hemileuca tricolor on sensitive plants

Plant eaters All

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

  • Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae
  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii on sensitive plants
  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis on sensitive plants

Flower visitors All

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

  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus on sensitive plants
  • Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae on sensitive plants
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on sensitive plants

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