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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Mule's Ears
  8. Arizona Mule-ears
  9. Supports

What Arizona Mule-ears supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 1 food 8 flowers

Specialist bees All

3 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 mule's ears
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on mule's ears
  • Big-cheeked Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella bucconis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Helianthus and 23 more on mule's ears

Plant eaters All

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

  • Sunflower Seed Maggot Neotephritis finalis on mule's ears

Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus on mule's ears
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on mule's ears
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor on mule's ears
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on mule's ears
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on mule's ears
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on mule's ears
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california on mule's ears
  • Gray Buckeye Junonia grisea on mule's ears

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