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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Cliff Thistle
  9. Supports
  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Cliff Thistle

3 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
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Dark-faced Longhorn Bee Melissodes tristis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more 1 record on plume thistles

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