Abstract
A list of 121 plant species in 33 families on which eumenine wasps were recorded feeding on nectar in Crimea is given. Forage plants were ascertained for 58 wasp species. The largest numbers of forage plant species belonged to the families Apiaceae (18), Asteraceae (17), and Lamiaceae (13). The largest numbers of wasp species were recorded on flowers of the same three families (23, 24, and 28 species, respectively). Among individual plant species, the largest numbers of visiting wasp species were recorded for Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. herbaceum (Vill.) Rouy (18 species), Limonium scoparium (Pall. ex Willd.) Stank. (15), Scrophularia umbrosa Dumort. (13), Mentha longifolia (L.) L. (11), and Nigella arvensis L. (11). The choice of flowers of certain plant families and genera by eumenine wasps, and also the known cases of nectar robbing by these wasps through holes made in the perianth are discussed.
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