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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wood Asters
  8. Bouquet Aster
  9. Supports

What Bouquet Aster supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 1 hosts 14 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Drury's Long-horned Bee Melissodes druriellus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 5 more on wood asters
  • Aster Mining Bee Andrena asteris Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum and Eurybia on wood asters

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Liriomyza limopsis on wood asters

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on wood asters
  • Black-shouldered Drone Fly Eristalis dimidiata on wood asters
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus on wood asters
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura on wood asters
  • Common Eastern Physocephala Physocephala tibialis on wood asters
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on wood asters
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus on wood asters
  • Eastern Yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons on wood asters
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