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

What Sunshine Mimosa supports

32 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 food 24 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Mimosa Yellow Eurema nise on sensitive plants
  • Mimosa Skipper Cogia calchas 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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Common Box Turtle Terrapene carolina
  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis on sensitive plants

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Northern Plushback Palpada vinetorum
  • Poey's Furrow Bee Halictus poeyi
  • Thin-lined Calligrapher Toxomerus boscii
  • Double-banded Plushback Palpada agrorum
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