Flower-Visiting Insects
of Cow-Wheat
Melampyrum lineare (Cow-Wheat)
(Bumblebees visit the flowers for nectar or pollen, while the butterfly sucks nectar; observations are from Cantlon et al. and Voss. According to Cantlon et al., Cow-Wheat is a partial root-parasite of pines, other trees, and low-bush blueberry, including Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Pinus sylvestris, Populus grandidentata, Populus tremuloides, Acer saccharum, Quercus rubra, and Vaccinium angustifolium.)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus spp. (Cnt)
Butterflies
Pieridae: Colias interior sn fq (V)