Flower-Visiting Insects
of Pasture
Rose
Rosa carolina (Pasture Rose)
(Most bees collect pollen; beetles & flies feed on pollen; Syrphid flies and beetles are sometimes non-pollinating; the butterfly is searching vainly for nectar; observations are from Robertson, Grundel & Pavlovic, Krombein et al., MacRae, Grundel et al., Lovell, and Discover Life as indicated below.)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus bimaculatus (Gnd), Bombus griseocollis (Rb, Gnd, DL), Bombus impatiens (Rb, Gnd), Bombus pensylvanicus fq (Rb); Anthophoridae (Anthophorini): Anthophora abrupta fq (Rb), Anthophora terminalis (Rb); Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina dupla (Rb); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Synhalonia speciosa fq (Rb); Anthophoridae (Xylocopini): Xylocopa virginica (DL); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis (Rb)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon sericeus (Rb), Agapostemon splendens (Gnd), Agapostemon virescens (Rb, DL), Augochlora pura (DL), Augochlorella aurata (Gnd), Augochlorella striata (Rb), Augochloropsis metallica (Rb), Lasioglossum cinctipes (DL), Lasioglossum cressonii (Gnd), Lasioglossum foveolatum (Gnd), Lasioglossum hitchensi (DL), Lasioglossum macoupinense (DL), Lasioglossum obscurum (DL), Lasioglossum truncatum (DL), Lasioglossum versatum (Rb), Lasioglossum zephyrum (DL); Colletidae (Hylaeinae): Hylaeus affinis/modestus (Gnd); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena arabis (DL), Andrena crataegi (DL), Andrena cressonii (Rb), Andrena hippotes (Kr, DL), Andrena miranda (Kr, DL), Andrena nasonii (DL), Andrena nivalis (DL), Andrena thaspii (DL), Andrena virginiana (DL), Andrena w-scripta (DL)
Flies
Syrphidae: Allograpta obliqua np (Rb), Chalcosyrphus nemorum np (Rb), Chalcosyrphus violascens np (Rb), Eupeodes americanus np (Rb), Mallota bautias (Rb), Mallota posticata (Rb), Ocyptamus fuscipennis np (Rb), Rhingia nasica np (Rb), Toxomerus geminatus np (Rb), Volucella vesicularia np fq (Rb); Bombyliidae: Hemipenthes sinuosa (Rb)
Butterflies
Lycaenidae: Lycaeides melissa samuelis (GP) exp
Beetles
Attelabidae: Merhynchites bicolor (Lv2); Buprestidae: Acmaeodera neglecta (McR), Acmaeodera ornata (McR), Acmaeodera tubulus (McR); Chrysomelidae: Brachypnoea puncticollis (Lv2), Diabrotica undecimpunctata np (Rb); Cryptophagidae: Antherophagus ochraceus (Lv2); Erotylidae: Acropteroxys gracilis (Lv2); Mordellidae: Mordella marginata (Lv2); Scarabaeidae: Trichiotinus piger fq (Rb)