Table 2.

Foraging behaviour throughout the day by flower visitors of Lepechinia floribunda during two consecutive seasons

		2013–2014			2014–2015			Average
	Flower visitor	Ra	Vr	Rv	Ra	Vr	Rv	Ra	Vr	Rv
Morning (09.00–12.00 h)	Apis mellifera	70.00	0.39	0.22	49.33	1.42	0.63	59.67	0.90	0.43
	Chlorostilbon lucidus	10.00	0.17	0.10	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Centris tricolor	6.67	0.03	0.02	1.72	0.33	0.00	4.20	0.18	0.01
	Bombus pauloensis	3.33	0.02	0.01	20.74	0.69	0.28	12.04	0.35	0.14
	Bombus opifex	–	–	–	7.24	0.37	0.13	–	–	–
	Megachile sp.	6.67	0.02	0.01	16.2	0.49	0.27	11.44	0.25	0.14
	Augochlora sp.	3.33	0.01	0.01	1.35	0.26	0.10	2.34	0.14	0.05
	Average	–	0.11	0.06	–	0.53	0.19	–	0.32	0.13
Noon (12.00–14.30 h)	Apis mellifera	68.42	0.36	0.25	33.71	0.31	0.13	51.07	0.34	0.19
	Chlorostilbon lucidus	2.63	0.01	0.01	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Bombus pauloensis	2.63	0.01	0.01	14.29	0.41	0.19	8.46	0.21	0.10
	Bombus opifex	–	–		9.14	0.35	0.17	–	–	–
	Megachile sp.	2.63	0.01	0.00	17.71	0.24	0.19	10.17	0.12	0.10
	Augochlora sp.	18.42	0.07	0.05	16.57	0.22	0.10	17.50	0.15	0.07
	Dialictus sp.	5.26	0.01	0.01	1.14	0.07	0.04	3.20	0.04	0.02
	Centris tricolor	–	–	–	6.29	0.22	0.00	–	–	–
	Average	–	0.08	0.05	–	0.29	0.13		0.18	0.09
Afternoon (14.30–17.30 h)	Apis mellifera	52.63	0.17	0.10	68.12	0.27	0.17	60.38	0.22	0.14
	Chlorostilbon lucidus	10.53	0.04	0.02	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Megachile sp.	–	–	–	10.03	0.27	0.18	10.03	0.27	0.18
	Bombus pauloensis	26.32	0.09	0.05	11.31	0.48	0.15	18.82	0.29	0.10
	Bombus opifex	–	–	–	1.29	0.25	0.15	–	–	–
	Dialictus sp.	10.53	0.02	0.01	5.14	0.12	0.13	7.84	0.07	0.07
	Centris tricolor	–	–	–	4.11	0.2	0.00	4.11	0.20	0.00
	Average		0.08	0.05	–	0.26	0.11		0.17	0.08

Ra, relative abundance; Vr, visitation rate (visits min^–1); Rv, relative visits (visits per flower).

The most abundant flower visitor is indicated in bold.