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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies
  7. Melissodes
  8. Eumelissodes
  9. Melissodes wheeleri

species 8 observations

Melissodes wheeleri

Melissodes wheeleri

Status
native
Pollen
Specialist on Helianthus, Rudbeckia, Coreopsis, Silphium, Verbesina, Echinacea, Gaillardia, Ratibida, Grindelia, Baileya, Pectis and Engelmannia
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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53 native plants
support it in the US
  • Pollen hosts Plants whose pollen its young are raised on Black-eyed Susan, Common Sunflower, Firewheel, Purple Coneflower 52
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Southern Sneezeweed 1

Range

United States

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

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