Flower-Visiting Insects
of Maryland Senna


Senna marilandica (Maryland Senna)
(Also referred to as Senna marilandica; long-tongued bees collect pollen & are the only effective pollinators; short-tongued bees collect stray pollen [csp] & are non-pollinating; ants & beetles suck nectar from the extra-floral nectaries; observations are from Robertson)

Visit flowers for pollen:

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus pensylvanica cp

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlorella striata csp np, Lasioglossum imitatus csp np

Visit extra-floral nectaries:

Ants
Formicidae: Camponotus herculeana, Crematogaster lineolata, Formica schaufussi, Lasius nigra

Beetles
Coccinellidae: Coccinella novemnotata


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