Flower-Visiting Insects
of Spotted Bee Balm


Monarda punctata (Spotted Bee Balm)
(Activity of bees and the beetle is unspecified, while butterflies suck nectar; information is limited; observations are from LaBerge, Krombein et al., Grundel & Pavlovic, Herms, and Mawdsley as indicated below)

Bees (long-tongued)
Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes bimaculata bimaculata (LB), Melissodes comptoides (LB), Melissodes tepaneca (LB)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Nomiinae): Nomia nortoni (Kr); Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes robertsonii (LB, Kr), Colletes willistoni (LB, Kr)

Butterflies
Lycaenidae: Lycaeides melissa samuelis sn (GP, Hm)

Beetles
Cleridae: Phyllobaenus pubescens (Mwd)


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