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

Specialist bees on Field Thistle

9 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
  • Eastern Thistle Longhorn Bee Melissodes desponsus Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles
  • Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee Megachile pugnata Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Helianthus and 3 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Osmia chalybea Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Valiant Long-horned Bee Melissodes illatus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 18 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Agile Longhorn Bee Melissodes agilis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Cirsium, Helianthus and 5 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Vigorous Long-Horned Bee Melissodes subillatus Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Cirsium, Coreopsis and 2 more 1 record on plume thistles
  • Texas Mason Bee Osmia texana Pollen specialist on Cirsium 1 record on plume thistles

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