A foraging bee gather food for the hive. He will travel to collect pollen, nectar and propolis of the flowers.

Cirsium vulgare (carduus vulgaris Savi).
Biennial herb from a fibrous root, 0.3-2.0 m tall; stems erect, branched, the branches spreading and ascending, stiff, ridged, sparsely to densely hairy, conspicuously spiny-winged at the base of the leaves.

Flowers:
Heads several to many, solitary at the end of the branches; disk flowers purple, rarely white; involucres egg-shaped to more or less rounded, 2.5-4 cm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, the outer and middle ones with a strong, yellow, 2-4 mm long spine, hairy on the margins, the midrib woody, the inner bracts longer, with a stiff point.

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