Ecosystem Roles
Adults are sometimes valuable pollinators. Caterpillars can be major herbivores, and are food for lots of other animals.
Ecosystem Impact: pollinates
Mutualist Species:
- Ants (some caterpillars give honeydew like aphids)
Source information
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Animal Diversity Web
. "Lepidoptera" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed September 16, 2012 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lepidoptera.html
Revisions
- 2012-12-08 20:02:08 UTC
