What Purple Nightshade supports
66
native animals
supported in the US
23
caterpillars
2
hosts
20
food
21
flowers
supported in the US
Caterpillars All
23 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.
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Tomato Pinworm
Keiferia lycopersicella
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Eggplant Leafroller Moth Lineodes integra
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Ipsilon Dart Moth
Agrotis ipsilon
on nightshades
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Salt Marsh Moth
Estigmene acrea
on nightshades
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Isabella Tiger Moth
Pyrrharctia isabella
on nightshades
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Virginian Tiger Moth
Spilosoma virginica
on nightshades
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Setaceous Hebrew Character
Xestia c-nigrum
on nightshades
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Cabbage Looper Moth
Trichoplusia ni
on nightshades
Hosted animals All
2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.
Plant eaters All
20 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.
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Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens
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Ornate Checkered Beetle
Trichodes ornatus
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Mexican Cactus Fly
Copestylum mexicanum
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Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes
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Colorado Potato Beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
on nightshades
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Greenhouse Whitefly
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
on nightshades
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
on nightshades
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Pine Grosbeak
Pinicola enucleator
on nightshades
Flower visitors All
21 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.
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Black-tailed Bumble Bee
Bombus melanopygus
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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
Bombus vosnesenskii
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Gray Bird Grasshopper
Schistocerca nitens
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Valley Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa sonorina
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Horse-fly Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa tabaniformis
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Habropoda depressa
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Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
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Tripartite Sweat Bee
Halictus tripartitus