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  7. Milkvetches
  8. Annual Desert Milkvetch
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What Annual Desert Milkvetch supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
11 caterpillars 1 bees 9 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on milkvetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on milkvetches
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on milkvetches
  • Harford's Sulphur Colias harfordii on milkvetches
  • Afranius Duskywing Erynnis afranius on milkvetches
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on milkvetches
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus on milkvetches
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola on milkvetches
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Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Pallid Habropoda Habropoda pallida Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Psorothamnus, Parkinsonia and 1 more on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Rocky Mountain Clearwing Hemaris thetis on milkvetches
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii on milkvetches
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on milkvetches
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • Monk Longhorn Eucera frater on milkvetches
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus on milkvetches
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides on milkvetches
  • Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara on milkvetches
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