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)