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: B. cuneigera - feeds on A. shortii B. errans B. maritima - feeds on A. tripolium B. sexnotata Coleophora case-bearers: 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. simulans C. sparsipuncta Schinia septentrionalis Polyphagous species which feed on Aster among other plants Bucculatrix angustata Coleophora case-bearers: 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 species S. arcigera S. nundina S. villosa Wormwood pug (Eupithecia absinthiata) External links Aster +Lepidoptera