Flower-Visiting Insects
of Grove Sandwort


Moehringia lateriflora (Grove Sandwort)
(bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen; the fly sucks nectar or feeds on pollen; the weevil gnaws on flower tissue; observations are from Wilhelm & Rericha)

Bees (long-tongued)
Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina calcarata (WR), Ceratina dupla dupla (WR), Ceratina strenua (WR)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlora pura pura (WR), Lasioglossum pilosum pilosum (WR), Lasioglossum vierecki (WR)

Flies
Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus (WR)

Beetles
Curculionidae: Centrinites strigicollis gnw np (WR)


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