Common Long Horned Bee

Melissodes communis Cresson 1879

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Melissodes communis (Common Long Horned Bee) is a species of Hymenoptera in the family Apidae. They visit flowers of Slough Thistle, Eastern Prickly Pear, firewheel, and Canada germander.

EOL has data for 10 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Teucrium canadense L. (Canada germander)
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Georgia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/614540
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has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
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Asclepias tuberosa L. (butterfly milkweed)
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Tradescantia ohiensis Raf. (bluejacket)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Cirsium crassicaule (Greene) Jepson (Slough Thistle)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Common Long-horned Bee. View this species on GBIF

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Common Long-horned Bee includes 2 children: