Flower-Visiting Insects
of Wild Sweet Crabapple


Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple)
(bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen, other insects suck nectar; observations are from Robertson and Wilhelm & Rericha)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera sn fq (Rb); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus auricomus sn (Rb), Bombus griseocollis sn fq (Rb), Bombus impatiens sn fq (Rb), Bombus pensylvanicus sn fq (Rb); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Synhalonia speciosa sn fq (Rb); Megachilidae (Osmiini): Osmia lignaria lignaria sn (Rb, WR)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlora pura pura (WR), Lasioglossum nigroviride (WR); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena cressonii (WR), Andrena hippotes (WR)

Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Danaus plexippus sn (Rb)

Skippers
Hesperiidae: Erynnis juvenalis sn (Rb)


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