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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
  7. Anticarsia
  8. Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth

species 10,381 observations

Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth

Anticarsia gemmatalis

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

14 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Black Locust, Wild Cowpea, Beach Bean, Bigpod Sesbania 13
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits White Beggarticks 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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