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Premise  Whole‐genome duplication (polyploidy) is an important force shaping flowering‐plant evolution. Ploidy‐specific plant–pollinator interactions represent important community‐level biotic interactions that can lead to nonrandom mating and the persistence of mixed‐ploidy populations.    Methods  At a naturally occurring diploid–tetraploid contact zone of the autopolyploid desert shrub  Larrea tridentata , we combined flower phenology analyses, collections of bees on plants of known cytotype, and flow cytometry analyses of bee‐collected pollen loads to investigate whether (1) diploid and tetraploid plants have unique bee pollinator assemblages, (2) bee taxa exhibit ploidy‐specific visitation and pollen collection biases, and (3) specialist and generalist bee taxa have ploidy‐specific visitation and pollen collection biases.    Results  Although bee assemblages overlapped, we found significant differences in bee visitation to co‐occurring diploids and tetraploids, with the introduced honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) and one native species ( Andrena  species 12) more frequently visiting tetraploids. Consistent with bee assemblage differences, we found that diploid pollen was overrepresented among pollen loads on native bees, while pollen loads on  A. mellifera  did not deviate from the random expectation. However, mismatches between the ploidy of pollen loads and plants were common, consistent with ongoing intercytotype gene flow.    Conclusions  Our data are consistent with cytotype‐specific bee visitation and suggest that pollinator behavior contributes to reduced diploid–tetraploid mating. Differences in bee visitation and pollen movement potentially contribute to an easing of minority cytotype exclusion and the facilitation of cytotype co‐occurrence.

Pollinator assemblage and pollen load differences on sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the desert‐dominant Larrea tridentata