Flower-Visiting Insects
of Soybean


Glycine max (Soybean)
(bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen, flies suck nectar and/or feed on pollen; observations are from Wilhelm & Rericha and Rightmyer)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera (WR); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus griseocollis (WR), Bombus impatiens (WR); Anthophoridae (Epeolini): Triepeolus lunatus sn (Rtm); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis brevis (WR), Megachile latimanus (WR), Megachile rotundata (WR)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum admirandum (WR), Lasioglossum hitchensi (WR)

Flies
Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus (WR), Tropidia quadrata (WR)


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