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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Beans
  8. Slimjim Bean
  9. Supports

What Slimjim Bean supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
35 caterpillars 1 hosts 4 food

Caterpillars All

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

  • Fall Armyworm Moth Spodoptera frugiperda on beans
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon on beans
  • Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens on beans
  • Salt Marsh Moth Estigmene acrea on beans
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica on beans
  • Isabella Tiger Moth Pyrrharctia isabella on beans
  • Bertha Armyworm Moth Mamestra configurata on beans
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on beans
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Hosted animals All

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

  • Broadbean Weevil Bruchus rufimanus on beans

Plant eaters All

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

  • Red-legged Grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum on beans
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis on beans
  • Potato Leafhopper Empoasca fabae on beans
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on beans

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