Flower-Visiting Insects
of Red Baneberry


Actaea rubra (Red Baneberry)
(bees collect pollen, while other insects feed on pollen; some beetles and flies are non-pollinating, as indicated below; observations are from Pellmyr)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum cressonii cp (Pel), Lasioglossum versans cp (Pel)

Flies
Sciaridae: Bradysia sp. fp np (Pel); Syrphidae: Melanostoma mellinum fp (Pel), Sericomyia militaris fp (Pel), Sphaerophoria novaeangliae fp (Pel); Anthomyiidae: Hydrophoria conica fp (Pel)

Beetles
Cantharidae: Cantharis sp. fp (Pel), Podabrus piniphilus fp (Pel), Silis sp. fp fq (Pel); Cerambycidae: Callimoxys sanguinicollis fp (Pel), Cyrtophorus verrucosus fp (Pel); Curculionidae: Otiorhynchus singularis fp np (Pel), Phyllobius oblongus icp fq (Pel); Elateridae: Liotrichus spinosus fp (Pel), Limonius aeger fp (Pel); Oedemeridae: Asclera ruficollis fp (Pel); Pyrochroidae: Pedilus sp. fp (Pel)


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