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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. Melissodes verbesinarum

species 11 observations

Melissodes verbesinarum

Melissodes verbesinarum

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Symphyotrichum, Heterotheca, Helianthus, Grindelia, Encelia, Hymenoxys, Pectis, Helenium, Gutierrezia, Sideranthus, Chrysothamnus, Isocoma, Baileya, Machaeranthera, Verbesina, Chaetopappa and Dyssodia
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

88 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Common Sunflower, Brittlebush, Panicled Aster, California Brittlebush 81
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Rubber Rabbitbrush, Spearleaf Rabbitbrush, Scarlet Globemallow, Bristle Flax 7

Range

United States

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

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