Diet Overlap

Apis mellifera (honey bee)
Cassida rubiginosa (Thistle Tortoise Beetle)

Common Diet

Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle)
Cirsium palustre (Marsh Thistle)
Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle)
Tanacetum bipinnatum bipinnatum (Tansy)

Common Habitat

Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)
Fenland
Humber Estuary
Lower Derwent Valley
Morecambe Bay
North America
Sefton Coast
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
Solent Maritime
South Pennine Moors
The New Forest

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