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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Asters
  8. Salt Marsh Asters
  9. Saltmarsh Aster
  10. Supports

What Saltmarsh Aster supports

21 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 9 food 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Peppered Moth Biston betularia
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Liriomyza eupatorii
  • Tansy Aphid Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
  • Ligyrocoris sylvestris
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Aster Leafminer Calycomyza humeralis
  • Large Fleabane Daisy Aphid Uroleucon erigeronense
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
  • Yellow-legged Flower Fly Syrphus rectus
  • Cryptic Bumble Bee Bombus cryptarum
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes
  • Muscoid Fly Myospila meditabunda

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