What Cucumber supports

66 native animals
supported in the US

16 caterpillars 2 hosts 11 food 37 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda
• Cucumber Moth Diaphania indica
• Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
• Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis
• Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
• Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica
• Armyworm Moth Pseudaletia unipuncta
• Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera ornithogalli

See all

Hosted animals All

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

• American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
• Vegetable Leafminer Liriomyza sativae

Plant eaters All

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

• Greenhouse Whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum
• Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
• Arctic Field Slug Deroceras agreste
• Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
• Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
• Greater Anglewing Microcentrum rhombifolium
• Banded Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica balteata

See all

Flower visitors All

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

• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum
• Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
• Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
• Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
• American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
• Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
• Squash Lady Beetle Epilachna borealis

See all