Flower-Visiting Insects
of Dotted
Smartweed
Persicaria punctata (Dotted Smartweed)
(Insects suck nectar; observations are from Robertson)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochloropsis metallica metallica
Wasps
Sphecidae (Bembicinae): Pseudoplisus divisus; Sphecidae (Crabroninae): Ectemnius continuus; Vespidae: Polistes fuscata; Vespidae (Eumeninae): Ancistrocerus antilope, Eumenes fraterna
Flies
Syrphidae: Platycheirus quadratus, Syritta pipiens; Tachinidae: Archytas aterrima fq