Flower-Visiting Insects of
Virginia Ground
Cherry
Physalis virginiana (Virginia Ground Cherry)
(Bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen; observations are from Robertson and Discover Life; Colletes latitarsis, Colletes willistoni, and Perdita halictoides are oligoleges of Physalis spp.)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlorella striata sn cp (Rb, DL), Lasioglossum pectinatum sn cp (Rb); Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes latitarsis sn cp fq olg (Rb), Colletes willistoni sn cp olg (Rb, DL); Andrenidae (Panurginae): Perdita halictoides sn cp olg (Rb, DL)