What Sesame supports

14 native animals
supported in the US

4 caterpillars 1 food 9 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Sesame Leafroller Antigastra catalaunalis
• Carolina Sphinx Manduca sexta
• Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens
• Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens

Plant eaters All

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

• Indian Cotton Jassid Amrasca biguttula

Flower visitors All

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

• Worthy Longhorn Florilegus condignus Pollen specialist on Pontederia
• Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
• Common House Fly Musca domestica
• Neotropical Red Paper Wasp Polistes canadensis
• Tepanec Long-horned Bee Melissodes tepaneca
• Robust Conehead Neoconocephalus robustus
• Exomalopsis similis
• Coelioxys aztecus

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