There is a fantastic app which generates a list of native plant species associated with the highest number of butterfly and moth species and is specific to any location and most habitat types in California: https://ctcosma.shinyapps.io/the_butterfly_net/ Once there, you simply: Enter a zip code …

This one too Home - Native Plants Finder (nwf.org) although I find it’s liberal with the numbers if you scrutinize range maps

“Top 10” is the opposite of biodiversity

[image] exonie: “Top 10” is the opposite of biodiversity I mentioned top 10 as an easy starting place, you could enter the top 100 plants if you wanted. Anyhow, the idea of the project is to easily see which plants support the most lepidopteran species, especially if you have limited space o…

[image] egordon88: This one too Home - Native Plants Finder (nwf.org) although I find it’s liberal with the numbers if you scrutinize range maps I hadn’t seen that one, it doesn’t seem to have an easy readout on actual plant species (output seems to be genera), and it doesn’t give a quick rea…

Do you know the top 10 native plants to promote Lepidopteran diversity in your part of CA?

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Do you know the top 10 native plants to promote Lepidopteran diversity in your part of CA?

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