Flower-Visiting Insects
of Fringed
Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata (Fringed Loosestrife)
(Bees collect pollen; Melittid bees also collect floral oil [cfo] and they are oligoleges of Lysimachia spp.; observations are from Robertson and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum ephialtum cp (WR), Lasioglossum versatus cp (Rb); Colletidae (Hylaeinae): Hylaeus mesillae cp (WR); Melittidae: Macropis ciliata cfo cp olg (WR), Macropis nuda cfo cp olg (WR), Macropis steironematis cfo cp olg (Rb)