Table 1.
Family and species list of bees collected in passive traps with different colored (bright blue, dark blue, dark yellow, bright yellow, purple, and red) vanes. Percent abundance of total species in each trap is presented.
| Family | Species | Author | Vane color and Bee species (% of total) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright blue |
Dark blue |
Dark yellow |
Bright yellow |
Purple | Red | |||
| Halictidae | Agapostemon texanus | Cresson | 11.83 | 9.9 | 10.47 | 14.68 | 6.65 | 9.29 |
| Agapostemon sericeus | (Forster) | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.28 | ||||
| Agapostemon virescens | (Fabricius) | 0.25 | 0.28 | |||||
| Augochlora pura | (Say) | 0.28 | 0.25 | 0.71 | ||||
| Augochlorella aurata | (Smith) | 13.17 | 15.51 | 45.18 | 47.59 | 12.47 | 30.71 | |
| Augochloropsis metallica | (Fabricius) | 0.15 | 2.2 | 0.25 | ||||
| Halictus ligatus | Say | 4.79 | 2.97 | 5.23 | 4.56 | 5.54 | 5 | |
| Halictus parallelus | Say | 1.8 | 2.97 | 3.58 | 2.28 | 5.54 | 5 | |
| Halictus rubicundus | (Christ) | 0.28 | ||||||
| Lasioglossum disparile | (Cresson) | 20.36 | 11.22 | 13.77 | 13.92 | 29.64 | 18.57 | |
| Lasioglossum hitchensi | Gibbs | 0.3 | 0.28 | |||||
| Lasioglossum imitatum | (Smith) | 15.72 | 12.21 | 7.16 | 4.3 | 9.7 | 15.71 | |
| Lasioglossum pectorale | (Smith) | 2.1 | 1.32 | 1.1 | 0.51 | 3.05 | 0.71 | |
| Lasioglossum tegulare | (Robertson) | 0.15 | ||||||
| Lasioglossum lustrans | (Cockerell) | 0.3 | 0.28 | 0.76 | ||||
| Halictus tripartitus | Cockerell | 0.75 | 0.66 | 0.55 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 2.14 | |
| Lasioglossum trigeminum | Gibbs | 0.28 | ||||||
| Lasioglossum sp. | Curtis | 0.15 | 0.55 | 0.25 | ||||
| Nomia nortoni | Cresson | 0.15 | 0.33 | |||||
| Apidae | Apis mellifera | Linnaeus | 0.45 | 1.32 | 0.76 | 0.55 | 1.43 | |
| Bombus bimaculatus | Cresson | 0.6 | ||||||
| Bombus fervidus | (Fabricius) | 0.75 | ||||||
| Bombus griseocollis | (De Geer) | 1.35 | 0.33 | 0.83 | 1.01 | 3.32 | 0.71 | |
| Bombus impatiens | Cresson | 1.2 | 1.98 | 1.1 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 2.14 | |
| Bombus pensylvanicus | (De Geer) | 2.84 | 0.33 | 1.93 | 2.03 | 0.83 | ||
| Ceratina calcarata | Robertson | 0.28 | 0.71 | |||||
| Ceratina dupla | Say | 0.25 | ||||||
| Ceratina strenua | Smith | 0.3 | 1.98 | 0.55 | 0.25 | 0.55 | ||
| Diadasia afflicta | (Cresson) | 0.15 | ||||||
| Diadasia enavata | (Cresson) | 0.33 | ||||||
| Melissodes bimaculatus | (Lepeletier) | 0.66 | 0.25 | 0.28 | ||||
| Melissodes communis | Cresson | 1.2 | 1.32 | 0.83 | 1.94 | 0.71 | ||
| Melissodes comptoides | Robertson | 0.6 | 0.99 | 0.25 | 0.83 | 0.71 | ||
| Melissodes denticulatus | Latreille | 0.15 | 0.99 | 0.51 | 0.28 | |||
| Melissodes sp. | Robertson | 0.15 | 0.33 | 0.28 | 0.71 | |||
| Melissodes vernoniae | (Say) | 9.88 | 28.05 | 2.20 | 1.77 | 13.85 | 2.86 | |
| Melitoma taurea | Smith | 0.15 | ||||||
| Peponapis pruinosa | (Say) | 0.3 | 0.28 | |||||
| Ptilothrix bombiformis | (Cresson) | 5.69 | 2.97 | 0.51 | 1.94 | |||
| Svastra obliqua | (Say) | 0.15 | 0.51 | 0.28 | ||||
| Svastra atripes | (Cresson) | 0.15 | ||||||
| Triepeolus lunatus | (Say) | 0.28 | ||||||
| Xenoglossa strenua | (Cresson) | 1.35 | 0.99 | 0.71 | ||||
| Xylocopa virginica | (Linnaeus) | 0.45 | 0.55 | 0.51 | 0.71 | |||
| Andrenidae | Calliopsis andreniformis | Smith | 0.25 | |||||
| Colletidae | Hylaeus mesillae | (Cockerell) | 0.71 | |||||
| Megachilidae | Megachile brevis | Say | 0.3 | 0.28 | ||||
| Megachile montivaga | Cresson | 0.28 | ||||||
| Megachile campanulae | (Robertson) | 0.33 | 0.25 | 0.28 | ||||
| Total species | 36 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 26 | 20 | ||