Flower-Visiting Insects
of Spatterdock


Nuphar advena (Spatterdock)
(Short-tongued bees collect pollen, while flies and beetles feed on pollen. Robertson doesn't describe it as such, but Lasioglossum nelumbonis is probably oligolectic on species of the Water Lily family; observations are from Robertson and Lovell as indicated below)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum nelumbonis cp olg (Rb)

Flies
Syrphidae: Parhelophilus divisus fp (Rb)

Beetles
Chrysomelidae: Donacia piscatrix fp (Lv2), Galerucella nymphaeae fp (Lv2)


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