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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. Sayapis
  9. Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee

species 788 observations

Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee

Megachile inimica

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium, Helianthus, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia, Baccharis, Vernonia, Verbesina, Silphium, Grindelia, Chrysopsis and Encelia
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

335 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Horseweed, Black-eyed Susan, Annual Fleabane, Common Sunflower 294
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits White Beggarticks, Purple Coneflower, Telescoping Mustard, Rubber Rabbitbrush 41

Range

United States

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

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