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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Figwort Family
  7. Butterfly Bushes and Allies
  8. Butterfly Bush
  9. Supports

What Butterfly Bush supports

262 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 12 food 243 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
  • Buddleia Budworm Pyramidobela angelarum
  • Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
  • Clavipes Sphinx Aellopos clavipes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mullein Aphid Aphis verbasci
  • Green Cone-headed Planthopper Acanalonia conica
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • American Yellowjacket Vespula alascensis
  • Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
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