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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Cirsium Series Altissima
  9. Engelmann's Thistle
  10. Supports
  11. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Engelmann's Thistle

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

  • Oblique Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes obliquus Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Rudbeckia and 4 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Eastern Thistle Longhorn Bee Melissodes desponsus Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles
  • Osmia chalybea Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Texas Mason Bee Osmia texana Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles

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