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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
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  8. Catclaw Mimosa
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What Catclaw Mimosa supports

36 native animals
supported in the US
10 caterpillars 4 food 21 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Chinati Sheepmoth Hemileuca chinatiensis
  • Calleta Silkmoth Eupackardia calleta
  • Cecrops Eyed Silkmoth Automeris cecrops
  • Mesquite Clearwing Moth Carmenta prosopis
  • Mimosa Yellow Eurema nise on sensitive plants
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on sensitive plants
  • White-marked Tussock Moth Orgyia leucostigma on sensitive plants
  • Io Moth Automeris io on sensitive plants
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Boll's Potter Wasp Eumenes bollii
  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
  • Opomydas limbatus
  • Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis on sensitive plants

Flower visitors All

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

  • Apache Paper Wasp Polistes apachus
  • Philophuga viridicollis
  • Small Milkweed Bug Lygaeus kalmii
  • American Snout Libytheana carinenta
  • Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe
  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio multicaudata
  • Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus
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Sheltered animals All

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

  • Tanaostigmodes albiclavus

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