Cane, J. H., G. C. Eickwort, F. E. Wesley & J. Spielholz. 1983. Foraging, grooming and mating behaviors of Macropis nuda (Melittidae) and use of Lysimachia ciliata oils (Primulaceae) in larval provisions and cell linings. Amer. Midl. Natur. 110: 257-264.
... Species in the genus are hosts to specialist bees in
the genus Macropis, which feed their larvae with pollen and floral
oils. They collect the oils collected from the trichome hairs on the
flowers. It is the only example of a mutualism involving an oil flower
and an oil-collecting bee outside of the tropics, and likely reflects a
co-evolved association
[James Cane]
[SK]; Mela & Cajander, 1906
A. J. Melan Suomen Kasvio (5. painos)
Suomen Kasvio
: 1-763
[GMBOT]; Robinson & Fernald, 1908
A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada
Gray's Manual Botany (7th Ed.)
: 10-926
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