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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Beebalms and Bergamots
  8. Monarda
  9. Purple Bergamot
  10. Supports

What Purple Bergamot supports

78 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 3 bees 71 flowers

Caterpillars All

4 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
  • Coleophora monardae on beebalms and bergamots

Specialist bees All

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

  • Beebalm Shortface Dufourea monardae Pollen specialist on Monarda on beebalms and bergamots
  • Protandrena abdominalis Pollen specialist on Monarda on beebalms and bergamots
  • Bee Balm Fairy Bee Perdita gerhardi Pollen specialist on Monarda on beebalms and bergamots

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Rusty-patched Bumble Bee Bombus affinis
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Snowberry Clearwing Hemaris diffinis
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
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