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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Cacti
  7. Prickly Pears
  8. Eastern Pricklypear Complex
  9. Prairie Pricklypear
  10. Supports
  11. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Prairie Pricklypear

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

  • Blue Cactus Borer Melitara dentata 1 record
  • Opuntia Leaf Miner Marmara opuntiella 4 records on prickly pears
  • Julia's Dicymolomia Moth Dicymolomia julianalis 1 record on prickly pears
  • Scale-feeding Snout Laetilia coccidivora 1 record on prickly pears
  • Staghorn Cholla Moth Euscirrhopterus cosyra 1 record on prickly pears
  • Desert Bantam Pseudoschinia elautalis 1 record on prickly pears
  • Loxomorpha flavidissimalis 1 record on prickly pears
  • Blue Cactus Borer Cactobrosis fernaldialis 1 record on prickly pears
  • Eastern Cactus-boring Moth Melitara prodenialis 1 record on prickly pears

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