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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Cacti
  7. Choyas
  8. Teddybear Cholla
  9. Supports

What Teddybear Cholla supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
5 bees 7 flowers

Specialist bees All

5 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Orange-tipped Woodborer Lithurgopsis apicalis Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on choyas
  • Diadasia australis Pollen specialist on Cylindropuntia, Opuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on choyas
  • Cactus Bee Diadasia rinconis Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia and Ferocactus on choyas
  • Barrel Cactus Woodborer Lithurgopsis echinocacti Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on choyas
  • Prickly-pear Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella opuntiae Pollen specialist on Cylindropuntia, Opuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on choyas

Flower visitors All

7 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Four-spurred Assassin Bug Zelus tetracanthus
  • Narnia snowi
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus on choyas
  • Chelinidea hunteri on choyas
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on choyas
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes on choyas
  • Encelia Megandrena Megandrena enceliae Pollen specialist on Larrea on choyas

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