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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies
  7. Melissodes
  8. Eumelissodes
  9. Western Thistle Longhorn Bee

species 106 observations

Western Thistle Longhorn Bee

Melissodes rivalis

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Brickellia and Plectocephalus
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

55 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Common Sunflower, Jerusalem Artichoke, Cobwebby Thistle, Maximilian Sunflower 54
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Rubber Rabbitbrush 1

Range

United States

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

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