Flower-Visiting Insects
of Checkerberry
Gaultheria procumbens (Checkerberry)
(this plant is also called Creeping Wintergreen; the flowers are fragrant. According to Reader, bees suck nectar; observations are from Reader and Lovell)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera (Lvl); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus spp. sn (Rd), Bombus ternarius (Lvl), Bombus terricola (Lvl), Bombus vagans fq (Lvl), Psithyrus sp. sn (Rd)