Flower-Visiting Insects
of Small Yellow Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium parviflorum (Small Yellow Lady's Slipper)
(the bees and flower flies explore the flowers; observations are from Pace)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera exp (Pc); Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina spp. exp (Pc), Ceratina calcarata exp (Pc); Megachilidae (Osminii): Osmia sp. exp (Pc)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon spp. exp (Pc), Lasioglossum spp. exp (Pc), Lasioglossum rohweri exp (Pc); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena spp. exp (Pc)
Flies
Syrphidae: Eristalis spp. exp (Pc)