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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
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  7. Ironweeds
  8. Narrow-leaf Ironweed
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  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Narrow-leaf Ironweed

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

  • Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee Megachile xylocopoides Pollen specialist on Solidago, Helianthus, Coreopsis and 3 more 1 record on ironweeds
  • Oblique Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes obliquus Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Rudbeckia and 4 more 1 record on ironweeds
  • Drury's Long-horned Bee Melissodes druriellus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 5 more 1 record on ironweeds
  • Denticulate Longhorn Bee Melissodes denticulatus Pollen specialist on Helianthus and Vernonia 1 record on ironweeds
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more 1 record on ironweeds
  • Melissodes dentiventris Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 6 more 1 record on ironweeds

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