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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. Small Long-horned Bee

species 818 observations

Small Long-horned Bee

Melissodes microstictus

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Symphyotrichum, Senecio, Antennaria, Ericameria, Solidago, Helianthus, Heterotheca, Grindelia, Hazardia, Helenium, Rudbeckia, Achillea, Anaphalis, Chrysothamnus and Plectocephalus
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Supported by All

198 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Common Yarrow, Horseweed, Black-eyed Susan, Common Sunflower 181
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Bluehead Gilia, Sticky Cinquefoil, Tatarian Blue Lettuce, Fireweed 17

Range

United States

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

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