What Giant Vetch supports

83 native animals
supported in the US

13 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 64 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea on vetches
• Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on vetches
• Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on vetches
• Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis on vetches
• Western Sulphur Colias occidentalis on vetches
• Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on vetches
• Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana on vetches
• Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on vetches

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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 vetches

Plant eaters All

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

• Button's Banana Slug Ariolimax buttoni
• California Quail Callipepla californica on vetches
• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on vetches
• Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum on vetches
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on vetches

Flower visitors All

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

• Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
• Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
• Schinia suetus
• Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
• Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa
• Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
• Northern Cloudywing Cecropterus pylades
• California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus on vetches

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