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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wood Asters
  8. Purple Wood Aster
  9. Supports
  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Purple Wood Aster

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

  • Drury's Long-horned Bee Melissodes druriellus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 5 more 1 record on wood asters
  • Aster Mining Bee Andrena asteris Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum and Eurybia 1 record on wood asters
  • Eastern Bare-Miner Protandrena andrenoides Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Rudbeckia and 1 more 1 record on wood asters
  • Two-celled Sweat Bee Lasioglossum lustrans Pollen specialist on Eurybia and Pyrrhopappus 1 record on wood asters
  • Composite Bare-Miner Protandrena compositarum Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Bidens and 2 more 1 record on wood asters
  • Canadian Mining Bee Andrena canadensis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Eurybia and 2 more 1 record on wood asters
  • Simple Miner Bee Andrena simplex Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago and Eurybia 1 record on wood asters

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