Flower-Visiting Insects
of Maryland
Senna
Senna marilandica (Maryland Senna)
(Also referred to as Senna marilandica; long-tongued bees collect pollen & are the only effective pollinators; short-tongued bees collect stray pollen [csp] & are non-pollinating; ants & beetles suck nectar from the extra-floral nectaries; observations are from Robertson)
Visit flowers for pollen:
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus pensylvanica cp
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlorella striata csp np, Lasioglossum imitatus csp np
Visit extra-floral nectaries:
Ants
Formicidae: Camponotus herculeana, Crematogaster lineolata, Formica schaufussi, Lasius nigra
Beetles
Coccinellidae: Coccinella novemnotata