Flower-Visiting Insects
of Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana (Chokecherry)
(Bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen, flies suck nectar or feed on pollen, beetles feed on nectar or feed on pollen or gnaw on floral tissue, other insects suck nectar. Observations are from Krombein et al., Gosling, Lovell, and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below.)
Bees (long-tongued)
Anthophoridae (Nomadini): Nomada integerrima sn (WR), Nomada sayi sn (WR)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlora pura (WR), Augochlorella aurata (WR), Lasioglossum pictum (WR), Lasioglossum pilosum (WR), Lasioglossum vierecki (WR); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena erythrogaster (Kr), Andrena forbesii (Kr), Andrena hippotes (Kr), Andrena imitatrix imitatrix (Kr), Andrena miranda (Kr), Andrena nigrae sn (Kr), Andrena nuda (Kr), Andrena perplexa (Kr), Andrena rugosa (Kr), Andrena sigmundi sn (Kr)
Wasps
Scoliidae: Campsomeris plumipes sn fq (WR)
Ants
Formicidae (Dolichoderinae): Tapinoma sessile sn@exfl sn np (WR); Formicidae (Formicinae): Camponotus pennsylvanicus sn@exfl sn np (WR), Formica subsericea sn@exfl sn np (WR), Lasius alienus sn@exfl sn np (WR), Prenolepis imparis sn@exfl sn np (WR); Formicidae (Myrmicinae): Crematogaster cerasi sn@exfl sn np (WR), Myrmica AF-smi sn@exfl sn np (WR)
Flies
Stratiomyidae: Stratiomys adelpha sn (WR); Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus (WR), Tropidia quadrata (WR)
Beetles
Buprestidae: Acmaeodera tubulus (Lv2); Byturidae: Byturus unicolor (Lv2); Cantharidae: Atalantycha bilineata (Lv2); Carabidae: Lebia fuscata (Lv2), Lebia viridis (Lv2); Cerambycidae: Acmaeopsoides rufula (Gsl), Analeptura lineola (Lv2), Brachyleptura circumdata (Lv2), Callimoxys sanguinicollis sanguinicollis (Gsl, Lv2), Cyrtophorus verrucosus (Gsl, Lv2), Evodinus monticola monticola (Gsl), Gaurotes cyanipennis (Lv2), Grammoptera subargentata (Gsl), Judolia montivagans montivagans (Gsl), Microclytus compressicollis (Gsl), Molorchus bimaculatus bimaculatus (Gsl, Lv2), Neoalosterna capitata (Gsl), Trachysida mutabilis (Gsl, Lv2); Chrysomelidae: Acalymma vittatum (Lv2), Crepidodera violacea (Lv2), Disonycha pensylvanica (Lv2), Pachybrachis subfasciatus (Lv2); Coccinellidae: Scymnus caudalis (Lv2); Curculionidae: Anthonomus corvulus (Lv2), Anthonomus quadrigibbus (Lv2), Conotrachelus nenuphar (Lv2), Pseudanthonomus crataegi (Lv2); Dermestidae: Anthrenus scrophulariae (Lv2), Cryptorhopalum triste (Lv2); Elateridiae: Agriotes sp. (Lv2), Agriotes oblongicollis (Lv2), Ampedus rubricus (Lv2), Corymbitodes tarsalis (Lv2), Dalopius tarsalis (Lv2), Hadromorphus inflatus (Lv2), Limonius confusus (Lv2), Limonius plebejus (Lv2), Limonius stigma (Lv2), Prosternon medianus (Lv2), Pseudanostirus hieroglyphicus (Lv2), Pseudanostirus triundulatus (Lv2); Meloidae: Lytta sayi (Lv2); Melyridae: Attalus scincetus (Lv2), Attalus terminalis (Lv2), Collops nigriceps (Lv2), Hypebaeus apicalis (Lv2); Mordellidae: Mordella atrata (Lv2); Nitidulidae: Carpophilus brachypterus (Lv2); Oedemeridae: Asclera ruficollis (Lv2); Scarabaeidae: Euphoria fulgida (Lv2), Hoplia trifasciata (Lv2); Scirtidae: Cyphon collaris (Lv2) Cyphon variabilis (Lv2); Scraptiidae: Anaspis flavipennis (Lv2), Anaspis rufa (Lv2); Tenebrionidae: Isomira quadristriata (Lv2)