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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Deervetch
  8. Deerweed
  9. Supports

What Deerweed supports

69 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 3 food 62 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on deervetch
  • Lupine Blue Icaricia lupini on deervetch

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gray Bird Grasshopper Schistocerca nitens
  • Gray Sagebrush Grasshopper Melanoplus cinereus
  • Margined Scarlet Plant Bug Lopidea marginata

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus
  • Rural Skipper Ochlodes agricola
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii
  • Lotus Hairstreak Callophrys dumetorum
  • Behr's Metalmark Apodemia virgulti
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