Flower-Visiting Insects
of Baldwin's
Ironweed
Vernonia baldwinii (Baldwin's Ironweed)
(This includes Vernonia baldwinii interior. Bees suck nectar and/or collect pollen, beetles suck nectar and/or feed on pollen, the butterfly sucks nectar; observations are from Mawdsley, MacRae, Kopper et al., Wilhelm & Rericha, and Rightmyer as indicated below.)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera (WR); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus fraternus (WR); Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina mikmaqi (WR); Anthophoridae (Epeolini): Triepeolus concavus sn (Rtm), Triepeolus cressonii sn (Rtm), Triepeolus helianthi sn (Rtm), Triepeolus lunatus sn (Rtm); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes denticulata cp olg (WR), Melissodes trinodis (WR); Megachilidae (Coelioxini): Coelioxys alternata alternata sn, Coelioxys modesta sn; Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile inimica sayi (WR), Megachile petulans (WR); Megachilidae (Trypetini): Heriades variolosus variolosus (WR)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochloropsis metallica fulgida (WR), Lasioglossum heterognathum (WR), Lasioglossum imitatum (WR), Lasioglossum tegulare (WR)
Beetles
Buprestidae: Acmaeodera pulchella (McR); Cleridae: Phyllobaenus pubescens (Mwd)
Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Speyeria idalia sn fq (KMC)