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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies
  7. Melissodes
  8. Eumelissodes
  9. Dark-faced Longhorn Bee

species 185 observations

Dark-faced Longhorn Bee

Melissodes tristis

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio, Helianthus, Heterotheca, Baccharis, Ericameria, Hymenoxys, Gaillardia, Gutierrezia, Verbesina, Encelia, Chrysothamnus, Thelesperma, Isocoma, Chaetopappa, Baileya, Machaeranthera, Heliopsis and Geraea
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

272 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Horseweed, Annual Fleabane, Common Sunflower, Philadelphia Fleabane 180
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Gooseberryleaf Globemallow, Scarlet Globemallow, Plains Pricklypear, Narrowleaf Globemallow 92

Range

United States

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

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