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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Clethra Family
  7. Sweet Pepperbush
  8. Sweet Pepperbush
  9. Supports

What Sweet Pepperbush supports

188 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 3 food 179 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Isabella Tiger Moth Pyrrharctia isabella
  • Large Maple Spanworm Moth Prochoerodes lineola
  • Bold-feathered Grass Moth Herpetogramma pertextalis
  • Inornate Olethreutes Moth Olethreutes inornatana
  • Sweet Pepperbush Nola Moth Nola clethrae
  • Zigzag Herpetogramma Moth Herpetogramma thestealis

Plant eaters All

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

  • Noble Scoliid Wasp Scolia nobilitata
  • Isodontia exornata
  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Great Black Digger Wasp Sphex pensylvanicus
  • Four-toothed Mason Wasp Monobia quadridens
  • Blue-winged Scoliid Wasp Scolia dubia
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
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