Flower-Visiting Insects
of Honewort

Cryptotaenia canadensis (Honewort)
(short-tongued bees usually suck nectar & less often collect pollen; flies and beetles suck nectar or feed on pollen; other insects suck nectar; observations are from Robertson, Krombein et al., and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below)

Bees (long-tongued)
Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina dupla dupla sn (Rb); Megachilidae (Trypetini): Heriades leavitti sn (Rb)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon sericea sn (Rb), Augochlora pura pura sn fq (Rb, WR), Augochlorella striata sn (Rb), Augochloropsis sumptuosa sn (Rb), Halictus confusus sn fq (Rb), Halictus ligatus sn (Rb), Halictus rubicundus sn (Rb), Lasioglossum birkmanni (WR), Lasioglossum cressonii sn fq (Rb, WR), Lasioglossum foxii sn (Rb), Lasioglossum illinoensis sn (Rb), Lasioglossum imitatum sn cp fq (Rb), Lasioglossum obscurum fq (WR), Lasioglossum pectinatus sn (Rb), Lasioglossum pectoralis sn fq (Rb), Lasioglossum pilosum pilosum sn (Rb), Lasioglossum truncatum sn (Rb), Lasioglossum versatum sn fq (Rb), Lasioglossum zephyrus sn (Rb); Halictidae (Sphecodini): Sphecodes cressonii sn fq (Rb), Sphecodes dichroa sn (Rb), Sphecodes stygius sn (Rb); Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes eulophi sn (Rb); Colletidae (Hylaeinae): Hylaeus sp. (WR), Hylaeus affinis sn (Rb), Hylaeus fedorica (WR), Hylaeus illinoisensis (WR), Hylaeus mesillae sn (Rb), Hylaeus saniculae sn (Rb); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena integra (Kr), Andrena nigrifrons sn (Rb), Andrena robertsonii sn cp (Rb), Andrena spiraeana sn (Rb); Andrenidae (Panurginae): Calliopsis andreniformis sn (Rb)

Wasps
Sphecidae (Crabroninae): Anacrabro ocellatus (Rb), Ectemnius lapidarius (Rb), Lestica confluentus (Rb), Oxybelus niger (Rb), Oxybelus uniglumis (Rb); Sphecidae (Philanthinae): Cerceris astarte (Rb), Cerceris clypeata (Rb); Pompilidae: Ceropales maculata (Rb); Chrysididae: Hedychrum parvum (Rb), Hedychrum violaceum (Rb); Gasteruptiidae: Gasteruption assectator (Rb), Gasteruption tarsatorius (Rb); Ichneumonidae: Dreisbachia slossonae (Rb), Lissonota tricincta (Ashmead, MS), Polyblastus citripes (Ashmead, MS); Vespidae (Eumeninae): Ancistrocerus adiabatus (Rb), Parancistrocerus perennis (Rb), Symmorphus canadensis (Rb)

Ants
Formicidae (Formicinae): Lasius alienus sn (WR), Prenolepis imparis sn (WR); Formicidae (Myrmicinae): Myrmica AF-smi sn (WR)

Flies
Hilarimorphidae: Hilarimorpha mikii (Rb); Mycetophilidae: Epicypta scatophora (Rb); Syrphidae: Allograpta obliqua (Rb), Epistrophe emarginata (Rb), Eristalis transversus (Rb), Eupeodes americanus (Rb), Orthonevra nitida (Rb), Paragus bicolor fq (Rb), Paragus tibialis fq (Rb), Pipiza femoralis (Rb), Syritta pipiens fq (Rb), Syrphus ribesii fq (Rb), Toxomerus geminatus fq (Rb), Toxomerus marginatus (Rb), Trichopsomyia apisaon (Rb); Empididae: Empis clausa (Rb), Empis loripedis (Rb); Bombyliidae: Geron calvus (Rb), Hemipenthes sinuosa (Rb); Conopidae: Thecophora occidensis (Rb), Zodion americanum (Rb), Zodion fulvifrons (Rb); Tachinidae: Cylindromyia euchenor (Rb), Gymnoclytia immaculata (Rb), Gymnoclytia occidua (Rb), Linnaemya comta (Rb), Siphona geniculata fq (Rb), Xanthomelanodes arcuatus (Rb); Sarcophagidae: Metopia argyrocephala (Rb); Muscidae: Neomyia cornicina (Rb); Anthomyiidae: Delia platura (Rb); Fanniidae: Fannia manicata (Rb); Scathophagidae: Cordilura munda (Rb); Lauxaniidae: Camptoprosopella vulgaris (Rb); Sepsidae: Sepsis violacea (Rb); Drosophilidae: Leucophenga varia (Rb); Chloropidae: Chaetochlorops inquilina (Rb), Chlorops proximus (Rb), Liohippelates flavipes (Rb), Olcella trigramma (Rb)

Butterflies
Papilionidae: Papilio polyxenes sn (WR)

Beetles
Attelabidae: Eugnamptus angustatus (Rb); Brentidae: Apion nigrum (Rb); Cantharidae: Podabrus brunnicollis (Rb); Cerambycidae: Euderces picipes (Rb, WR), Strangalia famelica solitaria (WR), Typocerus lugubris (Rb); Chrysomelidae: Acanthoscelides submuticus (Rb), Diabrotica undecimpunctata (Rb), Gibbobruchus mimus fq (Rb), Meibomeus musculus (Rb), Sennius abbreviatus (Rb); Coccinellidae: Diomus terminatus (Rb); Curculinoidae: Centrinaspis picumna (Rb); Dermestidae: Cryptorhopalum triste (Rb); Melyridae: Malchius erichsonii (Rb); Mordellidae: Mordella marginata (Rb, WR), Mordellistena limbalis (Rb, WR), Mordellistena pubescens (Rb, WR), Mordellistena tosta (WR), Mordellistena unicolor (WR), Mordellochroa scapularis (WR), Paramordellaria triloba (Rb); Scraptiidae: Anaspis flavipennis (WR), Pentaria trifasciatus (Rb)

Plant Bugs
Miridae: Plagiognathus obscurus (WR); Thyreocoridae: Corimelaena lateralis (Rb), Corimelaena obscura (WR)

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