Flower-Visiting Insects
of Black
Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry)
(insect activity is unspecified, but in general bees suck nectar or collect pollen, and flies suck nectar or feed on pollen; one observation is from Krombein et al., otherwise observations are from Small)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus perplexus (Sm), Bombus sandersoni (Sm), Bombus ternarius (Sm)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum pilosus pilosus fq (Sm); Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes inaequalis (Sm); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena alleghaniensis (Sm), Andrena forbesii (Kr), Andrena regularis (Sm), Andrena vicina (Sm)
Flies
Syrphidae: Eristalis dimidiatus (Sm), Helophilus fasciatus (Sm), Helophilus latifrons (Sm), Melanostoma sp. (Sm), Parhelophilus laetus (Sm), Sphaerophoria sp. fq (Sm), Syritta pipiens fq (Sm), Syrphus torvus fq (Sm)