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

What California Aster supports

78 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 2 food 70 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gabb's Checkerspot Chlosyne gabbii
  • Dichomeris baxa
  • Orange Tortrix Moth Argyrotaenia franciscana on sandaster
  • Gnorimoschema subterranea on sandaster

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on sandaster
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more on sandaster

Plant eaters All

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

  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis
  • Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta

Flower visitors All

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

  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Peridot Sweat Bee Augochlorella pomoniella
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Northern White-Skipper Heliopetes ericetorum
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
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