Flower-Visiting Insects
of Goat's
Rue
Tephrosia virginiana (Goat's Rue)
(Long-tongued bees collect pollen or suck nectar, short-tongued bees probably collect pollen & are non-pollinating, the butterfly sucks nectar and is non-pollinating; beetle activity is unspecified; some observations are from Grundel & Pavlovic, Herms, Mitchell, and MacRae as indicated below, otherwise they are from Robertson)
Bees (long-tongued)
Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile addenda sn cp, Megachile brevis brevis sn cp, Megachile georgica sn cp, Megachile mendica sn, Megachile petulans sn, Megachile rugifrons sn cp, Megachile texana sn cp; Megachilidae (Osmiini): Hoplitis pilosifrons sn cp
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum pilosus pilosus cp np (Mch)
Butterflies
Lycaenidae: Lycaeides melissa samuelis sn np (GP, Hm)
Beetles
Buprestidae: Acmaeodera pulchella (McR), Acmaeodera texana (McR)