Non-honey bees

Some bees can forage on a wide taxonomic variety of flowering plants. Others need a more restricted set of species, sometimes a very narrow one. Bee species that rely on flowers from one plant family, or a subset of it, are called oligolectic. Those that choose only one plant species (or, according to some authors, one plant genus) are called monolectic. On the cartoon you can see a female silvery pantaloon bee Dasypoda argentata, a narrow specialist on cream scabious Scabiosa ochroleuca.