Diet Overlap

Urophora stylata (Spear Thistle Gall Fly)
Apis mellifera (honey bee)

Common Diet

Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle)
Cirsium palustre (Marsh Thistle)
Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle)

Common Habitat

Fenland
Lower Derwent Valley
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
The Broads

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3Study of Northern Virginia Ecology