Flower-Visiting Insects
and Birds
of Prairie Dock
Silphium terebinthinaceum (Prairie Dock)
(Bees collect pollen or suck nectar, beetles feed on pollen or nectar, other insects and hummingbirds suck nectar. Observations are Robertson, Petersen, Hilty, Smith et al., Grundel et al., Williams, and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below.)
Birds
Trochilidae: Archilochus colubris sn (Rb)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apini): Apis mellifera sn cp fq (Rb, Gnd, WR); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus bimaculatus (Pt), Bombus fervidus (Gnd), Bombus griseocollis (Gnd, WR), Bombus impatiens sn cp (Rb, Gnd, WR), Bombus pensylvanicus sn fq (Rb, Smh); Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina dupla dupla sn cp (Rb, WR), Ceratina mikmaqi (WR); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Melissodes agilis (Pt, WR), Melissodes coloradensis sn (Rb), Melissodes communis communis (Smh), Melissodes trinodis (Gnd), Svastra aegis (Smh), Svastra obliqua obliqua sn cp (Rb); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile brevis brevis sn (Rb), Megachile mendica (Gnd)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon sericeus sn (Rb), Agapostemon virescens (WR), Halictus ligatus sn cp fq (Rb, Gnd, WR), Halictus rubicundus (Pt), Lasioglossum reticulatum (Smh); Andrenidae (Panurginae): Pseudopanurgus albitarsis (WR)
Wasps
Sphecidae (Sphecinae): Ammophila procera sn (Rb)
Flies
Bombyliidae: Geron holosericeus sn (WR), Sparnopolius confusus sn (Rb), Systoechus vulgaris sn (Rb)
Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Danaus plexippus sn (H)
Beetles
Cantharidae: Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus (Wms); Chrysomelidae: Diabrotica barberi gnw np (WR), Luperaltica nigripalpis fp (WR)