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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees
  7. Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees
  8. Xanthosarus
  9. Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee

species 1,521 observations

Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee

Megachile melanophaea

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

448 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Large-leaved Lupine, Miniature Lupine, Coastal Bush Lupine, Silvery Lupine 244
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Tall Blue Wild Indigo, Spreading Dogbane, Fireweed, Red Raspberry 204

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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