Flower-Visiting Insects
of Spatterdock
Nuphar advena (Spatterdock)
(Short-tongued bees collect pollen, while flies and beetles feed on pollen. Robertson doesn't describe it as such, but Lasioglossum nelumbonis is probably oligolectic on species of the Water Lily family; observations are from Robertson, Lovell, and Wilhelm & Rericha as indicated below)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum nelumbonis cp olg (Rb, WR)
Flies
Syrphidae: Parhelophilus divisus fp (Rb)
Beetles
Chrysomelidae: Donacia piscatrix fp (Lv2), Galerucella nymphaeae fp (Lv2)