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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Nightshades
  8. Bittersweet Nightshade
  9. Supports
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Bittersweet Nightshade

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

  • Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella 4 records
  • Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda 2 records
  • Herald Moth Scoliopteryx libatrix 1 record
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni 1 record
  • Eggplant Leafroller Moth Lineodes integra 1 record
  • Sesame Leafroller Antigastra catalaunalis 1 record

Not native to the US

4 animals, most recorded first.

  • Ailanthus Silkmoth Samia cynthia 3 records · introduced
  • Beet Armyworm Moth Spodoptera exigua 1 record · introduced
  • European Corn Borer Moth Ostrinia nubilalis 1 record · introduced
  • Tomato Looper Chrysodeixis chalcites 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

7 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Death's Head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos 3 records
  • Variegated Cutworm Moth Peridroma saucia 1 record
  • Cabbage Moth Mamestra brassicae 1 record
  • Beet Webworm Moth Loxostege sticticalis 1 record
  • South American Tomato Moth Phthorimaea absoluta 1 record
  • Summer Fruit Tortrix Adoxophyes orana 1 record
  • Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana 1 record

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