Flower-Visiting Insects
of Common Beggar's Ticks


Bidens frondosa (Common Beggar's Ticks)
(Insects suck nectar; observations from Robertson)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera; Apidae (Bombini): Bombus impatiens

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlorella striata, Halictus ligatus; Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes compactus

Wasps
Sphecidae (Sphecinae): Ammophila kennedyi

Flies
Syrphidae: Tropidia albistylum; Bombyliidae: Exoprosopa decora; Tachinidae: Spallanzania hesperidarum, Tachinomyia panaetius

Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Chlosyne nycteis


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