species 1,403 observations

Louisiana Painted-Dark Bee

Stelis louisae

Field notes

Stelis louisae is a cuckoo bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1911. It lives in the eastern United States and Ontario, Canada. It sometimes visits Helianthus flowers, and is active from March to September.

Supported by All

243 native plants
support it in the US

Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Clustered Mountainmint, False Sunflower, Butterfly Milkweed, Cutleaf Coneflower 243

Range

United States

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