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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plume Thistles
  8. Franciscan Thistle
  9. Supports
  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Franciscan Thistle

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

  • Oblique Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes obliquus Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Rudbeckia and 4 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Small Long-horned Bee Melissodes microstictus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Symphyotrichum and 14 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Colorado Mason Osmia coloradensis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 3 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Western Thistle Longhorn Bee Melissodes rivalis Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Brickellia and 1 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • California Mason Bee Osmia californica Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Senecio, Ericameria and 6 more 1 record on plume thistles

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