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

What Catclaw Mimosa supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 food 4 flowers 2 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Mimosa Yellow Eurema nise on sensitive plants
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus 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

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

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

Flower visitors All

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

  • Palmer's Metalmark Apodemia palmerii
  • 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

Sheltered animals All

2 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Tanaostigmodes albiclavus
  • Tanaostigmodes howardii

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