Flower-Visiting Insects
of Black
Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry)
(insect activity is unspecified, but in general bees suck nectar or collect pollen, and flies suck nectar or feed on pollen; observations are from Krombein et al., Small, and Grundel et al. as indicated below)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus perplexus (Sm), Bombus sandersoni (Sm), Bombus ternarius (Sm)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum pilosus pilosus fq (Sm); Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes inaequalis (Sm); Andrenidae (Andreninae): Andrena alleghaniensis (Sm), Andrena carlini (Gnd), Andrena crataegi (Gnd), Andrena cressonii (Gnd), Andrena fenningeri (Gnd), Andrena forbesii (Kr, Gnd), Andrena hippotes (Gnd), Andrena illini (Gnd), Andrena imitatrix (Gnd), Andrena miserabilis (Gnd), Andrena nasonii (Gnd), Andrena regularis (Sm), Andrena vicina (Sm)
Flies
Syrphidae: Eristalis dimidiatus (Sm), Helophilus fasciatus (Sm), Helophilus latifrons (Sm), Melanostoma sp. (Sm), Parhelophilus laetus (Sm), Sphaerophoria sp. fq (Sm), Syritta pipiens fq (Sm), Syrphus torvus fq (Sm)