Butterfly & Moth Larval Food Plants

Goosefoot Family

Chenopodiaceae

Vent., 1799
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  • Atriplex halimus - Sea Orach, Saltbush
    • ​​Death's-head Hawk-moth
  • Atriplex laciniata - Frosted Orache
    • Plain Pug
  • Atriplex littoralis - Grass-leaved Orache
    • Ground Lackey
  • Atriplex nidens - Hoary Orache
    • Plain Pug
  • Atriplex oblogifolia - Oblong-leaf Orache
    • Dark Spinach​
  • Atriplex patula - Spreading Orache
    • Emmelina monodactyla
    • Dark Spinach
    • Dot Moth
    • Blood-vein
    • Plain Pug
  • Beta vulgaris - Sugar Beet
    • Angle Shades
    • Cnephasia longana
    • Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
    • Death's-head Hawk-moth
    • Dog's Tooth
    • ​European Corn-borer
    • Flame Shoulder
    • Garden Dart
    • Ghost Moth
    • Orthotaenia undulana 
    • Turnip Moth
    • Silver Y
    • Small Mottled Willow
    • Spoladea recurvalis
    • Red Sword-grass
    • Rosy Rustic
    • Rosy Wave
    • Rusty-dot Pearl
    • Silver-striped Hawk-moth
    • Vine's Rustic
  • Beta vulgaris maritima - Sea Beet
    • ​Rosy Wave
  • Beta vulgaris cicla - Spinach Beet 
    • Ni Moth
  • Chenopodium album - Lamb's Goosefoot
    • Emmelina monodactyla
    • Bright-line Brown-eye
    • Dark Spinach
    • Dog's Tooth
    • Garden Tiger
    • Grey Arches
    • The Nutmeg
    • Mottled Rustic
    • Ni Moth
    • Heart & Dart
    • Heart & Club
    • Pale-shouldered Brocade
    • Plain Pug
    • Scarce Bordered Straw
    • Small Mottled Willow
    • Spoladea recurvalis
  • Chenopodium bonus-henricus - Good King Henry
    • Dark Spinach
    • ​Death's-head Hawk-moth
  • Chenopodium glaucum - Oak-Leaved Goosefoot
    • Dark Spinach​
  • Chenopodium hybridum - Maple-leaved Goosefoot
    • ​Dark Spinach
  • Chenopodium polyspermum - Many-seeded Goosefoot
    • ​Dark Spinach
  • Chenopodium pratericola - Desert Goosefoot
    • ​Dark Spinach
  • Chenopodium rubrum - Red Goosefoot
    • ​Dark Spinach
  • Chenopodium urbicum - Upright Goosefoot
    • ​​Dark Spinach
  • Chenopodium vulvaria - Stinking Goosefoot 
    • Mottled Rustic
    • ​Plain Pug
  • Halimione portulacoides - Sea Purslane
    • Ground Lackey
    • Rosy Wave- Captive bred
  • Salsola Kali - Saltwort,Russian Thistle
    • Death's-head Hawk-moth
    • Mottled Rustic
  • Spinacia oleracea - Spinach
    • Angle Shades
    • Dot Moth
    • Diamond-back moth
    • Heart & Club
    • Heart & Dart
    • Ni Moth
    • Silver Y
    • Small Mottled Willow
    • Spoladea recurvalis
    • Turnip Moth
  • Tribulus terrestris - Caltrop
    • African Grass Blue