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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Brittlebushes
  8. Virgin River Brittlebush
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  10. Specialist bees

Specialist bees on Virgin River Brittlebush

7 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Colorado Mason Osmia coloradensis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 3 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Dark-faced Longhorn Bee Melissodes tristis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 17 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Sabine Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes sabinensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Baccharis, Heterotheca and 8 more 1 record on brittlebushes
  • Melissodes verbesinarum Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Heterotheca, Helianthus and 14 more 1 record on brittlebushes

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