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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Cacti
  7. Barrel Cactuses
  8. San Diego Barrel Cactus
  9. Supports

What San Diego Barrel Cactus supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
5 bees 5 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 barrel cactuses
  • Diadasia australis Pollen specialist on Cylindropuntia, Opuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on barrel cactuses
  • Cactus Bee Diadasia rinconis Pollen specialist on Opuntia, Cylindropuntia and Ferocactus on barrel cactuses
  • Barrel Cactus Shortface Dufourea echinocacti Pollen specialist on Ferocactus and Echinocactus on barrel cactuses
  • Prickly-pear Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella opuntiae Pollen specialist on Cylindropuntia, Opuntia, Ferocactus and 1 more on barrel cactuses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Peridot Sweat Bee Augochlorella pomoniella
  • Twisted-horned Mini-digger Anthophorula torticornis
  • Forficula mediterranea
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus on barrel cactuses

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