Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including:
- Monophagous species which feed exclusively on Aster
- Bucculatrix leaf miners:
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- B. cuneigera - feeds on A. shortii
- B. errans
- B. maritima - feeds on A. tripolium
- B. sexnotata
- Coleophora case-bearers:
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- C. astericola
- C. asteris
- C. bidens - feeds on A. umbellatus
- C. dextrella
- C. ericoides
- C. granifera
- C. laurentella
- C. longicornella - feeds on A. tripolium
- C. nemorella - feeds on A. nemoralis
- C. simulans
- C. sparsipuncta
- Schinia septentrionalis
- Polyphagous species which feed on Aster among other plants
- Bucculatrix angustata
- Coleophora case-bearers:
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- C. acuminatoides - recorded on A. acuminatus
- C. annulicola
- C. conspicuella
- C. corsicella - recorded on A. amellus
- C. ditella - recorded on A. sedifolius
- C. duplicis
- C. linosyridella
- C. obscenella - recorded on A. tripolium
- C. polemoniella - recorded on A. ericoides
- Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)
- Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
- Schinia spp
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- S. arcigera
- S. nundina
- S. villosa
- Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)
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“... picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
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