Flowering Plants Visited
by Colletes
mandibularis
Colletes mandibularis Smith: Colletidae (Colletinae), Hymenoptera
(observations are from Robertson, Reed, LaBerge, Mitchell, Krombein et al., Grundel et al., and Wilhelm & Rericha; this bee sucks watery fluid [swf] from the semi-closed floral bracts and calyx of Deam's Dayflower)
Anacardiaceae: Rhus copallinum [unsp] (WR); Asteraceae: Erigeron strigosus (Mch, Kr), Hieracium scabrum (Gnd), Oligoneuron album (WR), Solidago gigantea (WR), Solidago nemoralis (Re, WR); Caesalpiniaceae: Chamaecrista fasciculata [exfl sn] (LB, Kr, WR); Commelinaceae: Commelina erecta deamii swf (WR); Euphorbiaceae: Euphorbia corollata sn (WR); Fabaceae: Amorpha canescens (LB, WR), Medicago sativa (Kr), Melilotus alba (Kr); Lamiaceae: Monarda punctata (WR), Pycnanthemum tenuifolium sn (Rb)