Native Bee & Butterfly Pollinators How to Improve Bee Habitat Pedernales Falls State Park Nesting Feeding

BEES Maintain Sweat Bees diverse Green: Agapostemon texanus native flower Augochloropsis metallica meadows 1 blooming from Dark Sweat bee Striped: Halictus (2 species) 4 Dark: Lasioglossum (7 species) April to August Digger/Mining Bees to provide Leave bare ground for Andrena rudbeckiae bees with ground-nesters’ young to Anthophora (2 species) nectar & pollen survive until spring

Green Sweat bee Chimney Bees 5 Diadasia (3 species) Exomalopsis solani Heriades variolosa Leiopodus singularis

Chimney bee American Bumblebee 6 Bombus pensylvanicus 2 Plasterer Bees Colletes (2 species) Blue sage Sunflower Bees Svastra (4 species) Leave stems and Sunflower bee 7 Large Squash Bee leafy growth Xenoglossa strenua for cavity-nesting bees Longhorned Bees bee Melissodes (5 species) Large Carpenter Bee

Longhorned 8 Xylocopa virginica Leafcutter Bees Sunflower Lithurgus littoralis Megachile (4 species) 3 Bee

Leafcutter bee texana 9 Leave woody areas for BUTTERFLIES wood-nesting bees Skipper Butterflies

Skipper Bee balm Amblyscirtes eos (SW Roadside)

Eufala 10 Lerodea eufala (South./Eufala) Pyrgus communis/albescens KEY (Common/white checkered) Brushfooted Butterflies Ground nesters Agraulis vanillae Cavity or wood nesters

Painted Lady (Gulf fritillary) 11 Euptoieta claudia Specialist larvae feed on few species in 1 plant family (Variegated fritillary) Generalist larvae feed on several species in > 2 plant families Vanessa cardui (Painted lady)

swallowtail Vanessa virginensis (Amer. lady) Winkler Swallowtails Family 12 Foundation

Pipevine Battus philenor (Pipevine swallowtail) Dr. Shalene Jha, Kim Ballare, Laurel Treviño, 2016

1 Rob Cruickshank, 2 Chris Worden, 3 Gilles San Martin, 4 Steve Nanz, 5 Andrew Redding, 6 Sandy Shanks, 7 Lynette Elliott, 8, 9 Bob Peterson, 10 Alan Schmierer, 11 CC0 (PD), 12 N.C. Orchid