Flower-Visiting Insects
of Wild Sweet
Potato
Ipomoea pandurata (Wild Sweet Potato)
(Also called Man-of-the-Earth; bees suck nectar or collect pollen; other insects suck nectar; observations are from Robertson)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera sn; Apidae (Bombini): Bombus auricomus sn fq, Bombus griseocallis sn, Bombus pensylvanica sn cp fq, Bombus vagans sn; Anthophoridae (Emphorini): Melitoma taurea sn cp fq olg, Ptilothrix bombiformis sn fq; Anthophoridae (Epeolini): Triepeolus remigatus sn; Anthophoridae (Eucerini): Cemolobus ipomoeae sn cp fq olg, Melissodes bimaculata bimaculata sn cp fq, Peponapis pruinosa pruinosa sn fq, Svastra atripes atripes sn, Svastra obliqua obliqua sn, Xenoglossa strenua sn fq
Butterflies
Papilionidae: Battus philenor sn, Papilio troilus sn
Skippers
Hesperiidae: Poanes zabulon sn
Moths
Sphingidae: Sphinx eremitus sn