What Small Balsam supports

12 native animals
supported in the US

1 caterpillars 1 hosts 6 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Ornate Hydriris Moth Hydriris ornatalis

Hosted animals All

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

• Jewelweed Leaf-miner Fly Phytoliriomyza melampyga

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
• Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus

Flower visitors All

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

• Banded Thintail Meliscaeva cinctella
• Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
• Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
• Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha