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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Speedwells and Hebes
  8. Kittentails
  9. Kittentails
  10. Supports

What Kittentails supports

39 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 food 33 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dusky Leafroller Moth Orthotaenia undulana on speedwells and hebes
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton on speedwells and hebes
  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana on speedwells and hebes
  • Culver's Root Borer Moth Papaipema sciata on speedwells and hebes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris on speedwells and hebes
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on speedwells and hebes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus on speedwells and hebes
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on speedwells and hebes
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii on speedwells and hebes
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on speedwells and hebes
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on speedwells and hebes
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on speedwells and hebes
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius on speedwells and hebes
  • Rusty-patched Bumble Bee Bombus affinis on speedwells and hebes
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