Flower-Visiting Insects
of Pasture
Rose
Rosa carolina (Pasture Rose)
(Bees collect pollen; beetles & flies feed on pollen; Syrphid flies and beetles are sometimes non-pollinating; the butterfly is searching vainly for nectar; some observations are from Grundel & Pavlovic, Krombein et al., and MacRae as indicated below, otherwise they are from Robertson)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus griseocallis, Bombus impatiens, Bombus pensylvanica fq; Anthophoridae (Anthophorini): Anthophora abrupta fq, Anthophora terminalis; Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina dupla dupla; Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Synhalonia speciosa fq; Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis brevis
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon sericea, Agapostemon virescens, Augochlorella striata, Augochloropsis metallica metallica, Lasioglossum versatus; Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena cressonii, Andrena hippotes (Kr), Andrena miranda (Kr)
Flies
Syrphidae: Allograpta obliqua np, Chalcosyrphus nemorum np, Chalcosyrphus violascens np, Eupeodes americanus np, Mallota bautias, Mallota posticata, Ocyptamus fuscipennis np, Rhingia nasica np, Toxomerus geminatus np, Volucella vesicularia np fq; Bombyliidae: Hemipenthes sinuosa
Butterflies
Lycaenidae: Lycaeides melissa samuelis (GP) exp
Beetles
Buprestidae: Acmaeodera neglecta (McR), Acmaeodera ornata (McR), Acmaeodera tubulus (McR); Chrysomelidae: Diabrotica undecimpunctata np; Scarabaeidae (Cetonniae): Trichiotinus piger fq