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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Ground Cherries
  8. Cape Gooseberry
  9. Supports

What Cape Gooseberry supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 4 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Carolina Sphinx Manduca sexta
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea
  • Eggplant Leafroller Moth Lineodes integra

Plant eaters All

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

  • Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata
  • Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
  • Greenhouse Whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum
  • Hawaiian Crow Corvus hawaiiensis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Three-lined Lema Beetle Lema trivittata
  • Keeled Treehopper Entylia carinata
  • Broad-footed Cellophane Bee Colletes latitarsis Pollen specialist on Physalis

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