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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Palo Verde
  8. Little-leaved Palo Verde
  9. Supports

What Little-leaved Palo Verde supports

23 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 1 hosts 2 food 14 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hubbard's Silk Moth Syssphinx hubbardi
  • Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth Syssphinx heiligbrodti
  • Tricolor Buck Moth Hemileuca tricolor
  • Juno Buckmoth Hemileuca juno on palo verde

Specialist bees All

2 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 palo verde
  • Perdita punctosignata Pollen specialist on Parkinsonia, Vachellia and Prosopis on palo verde

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Agrilus felix

Plant eaters All

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

  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii on palo verde
  • Philya ferruginosa on palo verde

Flower visitors All

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

  • Centris pallida
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola
  • Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina on palo verde
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