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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Nightshades
  8. Black Nightshade Complex
  9. Black Nightshade
  10. Supports

What Black Nightshade supports

49 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 41 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Herald Moth Scoliopteryx libatrix
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni
  • Sesame Leafroller Antigastra catalaunalis
  • Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata
  • Epitrix brevis
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis
  • Chloropid Fly Thaumatomyia glabra
  • Chlorops

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