Flower-Visiting Insects
of Panicled Tick Trefoil


Desmodium paniculatum (Panicled Tick Trefoil)
(both long-tongued & short-tongued bees collect pollen; observations are from Robertson and Grundel et al. as indicated below)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus impatiens cp (Rb, Gnd), Bombus pensylvanicus cp (Rb); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes bimaculata bimaculata cp (Rb); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis brevis cp (Rb, Gnd), Megachile mendica cp (Rb, Gnd), Megachile petulans cp (Rb), Megachile texana cp (Gnd)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Nomiinae): Nomia nortoni nortoni cp (Rb); Andrenidae (Panurginae): Calliopsis andreniformis cp (Rb)


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