Flower-Visiting Insects
of Grooved Yellow Flax


Linum sulcatum (Grooved Yellow Flax)
(bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen, ants suck nectar and they are non-pollinating, beetles feed on nectar or pollen; observations are from MacRae, Smith et al., Wilhelm & Rericha, and Discover Life)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus pensylvanicus (Smh); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes communis communis (Smh); Megachilidae (Anthidiini): Anthidium oblongatum sn/cp (WR)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum albipenne (DL)

Ants
Formicidae (Myrmicinae): Monomorium minimum sn np (WR)

Beetles
Buprestidae: Acmaeodera texana (McR), Acmaeodera tubulus (McR)


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