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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Sweet Clovers
  8. Small Melilot
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What Small Melilot supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 11 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Alfalfa Aphid Therioaphis trifolii
  • Short-beaked Clover Aphid Nearctaphis bakeri
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Toltec Scoliid Wasp Dielis tolteca
  • Sweetclover Weevil Sitona cylindricollis
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Banded Mud Bee Megachile ericetorum
  • Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta
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