The two-spotted miner bee
[ (''Andrena accepta'') is a species of miner bee in the family ]Andrenidae
The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It i ...
. It is found in Central America and North America.[ Members of the species have communal nests made of many cells. They live in desert scrub habitat. Their primary host plants belong to the genus '']Helianthus
''Helianthus'' () is a genus comprising around 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. Except for three South American species, the species of ''Helianthus'' are native to ...
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Insects described in 1916
Hymenoptera of North America
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