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  1. Life
  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
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Butterfly Bush

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

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona 4 records
  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia 4 records
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua 3 records
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata 3 records
  • Buddleia Budworm Pyramidobela angelarum 2 records
  • Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana 1 record
  • Clavipes Sphinx Aellopos clavipes 1 record

Not native to the US

2 animals, most recorded first.

  • Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 2 records · introduced
  • Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana 2 records · introduced

Nativity unknown

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

  • Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 8 records
  • Death's Head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos 4 records
  • Mottled Pug Eupithecia exiguata 4 records
  • Emperor Butterflies Charaxes 2 records · genus
  • Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria 1 record
  • Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata 1 record
  • Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi 1 record
  • Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana 1 record
  • Swift-winged Sphinx Enyo ocypete 1 record
  • Diamondback Moths Plutellidae 1 record · family

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