Flower-Visiting Insects
of Shooting
Star
Dodecatheon meadia (Shooting Star)
(Bees collect pollen through buzz-pollination; the flowers attract queen bumblebees; some bees explore the flowers, searching vainly for nectar, while others collect stray pollen; the weevil feeds on stray pollen; observations are from Robertson, Macior, and Wilhelm & Rericha)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera cp (WR); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus affinis cp (Mc), Bombus auricomus cp exp (Rb, Mc), Bombus bimaculatus cp fq (Mc, WR), Bombus fervida cp exp (Mc), Bombus griseocollis cp exp (Rb, Mc, WR), Bombus impatiens cp exp fq (Rb, Mc, WR), Bombus pensylvanica cp exp fq (Rb, Mc), Bombus rufocinctus cp (Mc), Bombus vagans cp exp (Mc); Anthophoridae (Anthophorini): Anthophora ursina cp (Rb); Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Synhalonia speciosa cp (Rb)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Augochlorella striata cp np (Rb), Augochloropsis metallica fulgida cp fq (Mc), Augochloropsis metallica metallica cp np (Rb), Lasioglossum anomalum csp np (WR), Lasioglossum forbesii cp (Mc), Lasioglossum hitchensi csp np (WR)
Beetles
Curculionidae: Centrinites strigicollis fsp np (WR)