Flower-Visiting Insects
of Purple Poppy Mallow


Callirhoe involucrata (Purple Poppy Mallow)
(bees suck nectar or collect pollen; observations are from Krombein et al. and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below; observations of Wilhelm & Rericha are from gardens, rather natural habitat)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apini): Apis mellifera (WR); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus impatiens (WR); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes bimaculata bimaculata (WR)

Bees (short-tongued)
Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes brevicornis (Kr)


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