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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
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  8. Alfalfa Complex
  9. Sickle Alfalfa
  10. Supports

What Sickle Alfalfa supports

210 native animals
supported in the US
25 caterpillars 55 food 130 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Alfalfa Leaf Tier Dichomeris acuminatus
  • Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Bristly Cutworm Moth Lacinipolia renigera
  • Spotted Beet Webworm Moth Hymenia perspectalis
  • Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens
  • Nutmeg Moth Anarta trifolii
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Buffalo Treehopper Stictocephala bisonia
  • Wide-footed Treehopper Enchenopa latipes
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Short-beaked Clover Aphid Nearctaphis bakeri
  • Potato Leafhopper Empoasca fabae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Western White Pontia occidentalis
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • Cryptic Bumble Bee Bombus cryptarum
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala
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