What Lemon Beebalm supports

104 native animals
supported in the US

3 caterpillars 1 bees 4 food 96 flowers

Caterpillars All

3 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

• Raspberry Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta signatalis on beebalms and bergamots
• Hermit Sphinx Lintneria eremitus on beebalms and bergamots
• Gray Marvel Moth Anterastria teratophora on beebalms and bergamots

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

• Protandrena abdominalis Pollen specialist on Monarda on beebalms and bergamots

Plant eaters All

4 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

• Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium
• Tumbling Ragdoll Mordella marginata
• Colladonus belli
• Euodynerus pratensis

Flower visitors All

96 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

• American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
• Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
• Abrupt Digger Bee Anthophora abrupta
• Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
• Question Mark Polygonia interrogationis
• Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes

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