What Lemon Balm supports

21 native animals
supported in the US

3 caterpillars 9 food 9 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

• Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
• White Peacock Anartia jatrophae
• Bean Looper Autoplusia egena

Plant eaters All

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

• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
• Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
• Black-horned Tenthredo Tenthredo atra

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Flower visitors All

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

• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
• Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
• Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
• Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
• Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp Eremnophila aureonotata

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