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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Desert Dandelions
  8. Desert Dandelion
  9. Supports
  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Desert Dandelion

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more 1 record on desert dandelions
  • Desert-dandelion Nomadopsis Calliopsis puellae Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Malacothrix, Baileya and 1 more 1 record on desert dandelions
  • Lovely-horned Fairy Bee Perdita callicerata Pollen specialist on Heterotheca, Gutierrezia, Malacothrix and 3 more 1 record on desert dandelions
  • Olivaceous Mining Bee Andrena olivacea Pollen specialist on Malacothrix, Baileya, Rafinesquia and 1 more 1 record on desert dandelions
  • Desert Dandelion Fairy Bee Perdita malacothricis Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Malacothrix, Stephanomeria and 3 more 1 record on desert dandelions

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