What Pacific Pea supports

57 native animals
supported in the US

13 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 38 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Chionodes braunella
• Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Western Sulphur Colias occidentalis on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Marine Blue Leptotes marina on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus on sweet peas and vetchlings

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Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

• Broadbean Weevil Bruchus rufimanus on sweet peas and vetchlings

Plant eaters All

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

• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
• American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis
• Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus on sweet peas and vetchlings
• California Quail Callipepla californica on sweet peas and vetchlings
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on sweet peas and vetchlings

Flower visitors All

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

• Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
• Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
• California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
• Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius
• Pale Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon
• Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis
• Clark's Sphinx Proserpinus clarkiae
• California Dogface Zerene eurydice

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