Flower-Visiting Insects
of Spanish
Needles
Bidens bipinnata (Spanish Needles)
(Bees suck nectar or collect pollen, other insects suck nectar; some observations are from Krombein et al. and Rightmyer as indicated below, otherwise observations are from Robertson)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera sn cp fq; Apidae (Bombini): Bombus pensylvanica sn; Anthophoridae (Epeolini): Triepeolus pectoralis sn (Rtm); Megachilidae (Coelioxini): Coelioxys sayi sn; Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile centuncularis sn cp, Megachile inimica sayi sn; Megachilidae (Trypetini): Heriades leavitti sn
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Nomiinae): Dieunomia heteropoda (Kr)
Flies
Syrphidae: Syritta pipiens; Empididae: Empis clausa; Tachinidae: Copecrypta ruficauda
Butterflies
Pieridae: Pieris rapae