Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  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. Scarlet Beebalm
  10. Supports

What Scarlet Beebalm supports

127 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 3 bees 120 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hermit Sphinx Lintneria eremitus
  • Gray Marvel Moth Anterastria teratophora
  • Raspberry Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta signatalis
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris

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

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

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Rusty-patched Bumble Bee Bombus affinis
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect