The plant is a useful food plant for butterfly larvae (catterpillars):
In the resulting confusion the wasp locates the butterfly larva and injects it with its eggs.
The music made by the butterfly larvae would never pass for Parker-style bebop.
At least four species of butterfly larvae feed on the leaves.
A. glaber is a food consumed by numerous wildlife, providing intake for hummingbirds, bees, butterfly larvae, and deer.
Kidney vetch is the foodplant of the small blue butterfly larvae.
Pierce studies the relationship between butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species, in order to understand the process of evolution.
They mainly eat insects such as butterfly larvae, also spiders and snails.
The butterfly larva generally feed on plants of Family Asclepiadaceae.
Many butterfly larvae produce no covering at all.