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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies
  7. Melissodes
  8. Eumelissodes
  9. Valiant Long-horned Bee

species 653 observations

Valiant Long-horned Bee

Melissodes illatus

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus, Bidens, Erigeron, Hieracium, Cirsium, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia, Vernonia, Gaillardia, Helenium, Ratibida, Baccharis, Silphium, Cosmos, Verbesina, Heliopsis, Haplopappus, Plectocephalus and Sideranthus
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Supported by All

118 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Horseweed, Black-eyed Susan, Annual Fleabane, Common Sunflower 114
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Flat-topped Goldenrod, Flat-top White Aster, Larkspurleaf Tickseed, Great Basin Woollystar 4

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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