Flower-Visiting Insects
of Small Wild Bean


Strophostyles leiosperma (Small Wild Bean)
(Bees & butterflies visit flowers for nectar; ants & short-tongued bees visit extra-floral nectaries for nectar; observations are from Robertson and Rudolph et al.)

Visit flowers:

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus pensylvanica sn (Rb); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis brevis sn (Rb)

Bees (short-tongued)
Andrenidae (Panurginae): Calliopsis andreniformis sn (Rb)

Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Speyeria cybele sn (Rud)

Visit extra-floral nectaries:

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum imitatus sn (Rb), Lasioglossum versatus sn (Rb)

Ants
Formicidae: Formica schaufussi sn fq (Rb)


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