What Cape-ivy supports

12 native animals
supported in the US

1 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni

Hosted animals All

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

• Cape Ivy Gall Fly Parafreutreta regalis

Plant eaters All

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

• Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus
• Purple Bromeliad Fly Copestylum violaceum
• Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
• White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
• Yellow-spotted Bromeliad Fly Copestylum avidum

Flower visitors All

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

• Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
• Spiny Tachina Fly Paradejeania rutilioides
• Compsomyiops callipes
• Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
• Monarch Danaus plexippus