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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees
  7. Pebble Bees
  8. Dianthidium
  9. Variable Pebble Bee

species 684 observations

Variable Pebble Bee

Dianthidium subparvum

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Erigeron, Solidago, Grindelia, Cirsium, Agoseris, Encelia, Palafoxia, Helianthus, Pentachaeta, Chrysothamnus, Heliomeris, Machaeranthera, Pyrrocoma, Viguiera and Haplopappus
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Supported by All

38 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Horseweed, Common Sunflower, Philadelphia Fleabane, Canada Goldenrod 22
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Hairy Gumweed, Common Yarrow, Tatarian Blue Lettuce, Western Aster 16

Range

United States

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

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