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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Thimblehead
  8. trans-Pecos Thimblehead
  9. Supports

What trans-Pecos Thimblehead supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 3 food 14 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on thimblehead
  • Sabine Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes sabinensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Baccharis, Heterotheca and 8 more on thimblehead

Plant eaters All

3 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Copestylum marginatum
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
  • Copestylum fornax

Flower visitors All

14 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Elada Checkerspot Microtia elada
  • Tiny Checkerspot Microtia dymas
  • Acmaeodera gibbula
  • Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
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