“…The adults visit a variety of flowers, mainly yellow composites, white umbellifers, Aster, hoary alison Berteroa incana , rock-rose Cistus , oregano Origanum , creeping willow Salix repens , ragworts and groundsels Senecio , and dandelions Taraxacum ( Speight, 2017 ) as well as other plants, such as Thymelaea velutina , endemic to the Balearic Islands ( De La Bandera & Traveset, 2006 ). This species was also found to be an effective pollinator of various crops, for example mango Mangifera indica , watermelon Citrullus lanatus , onion Allium cepa , chickpea Cicer arietinum , celery Apium graveolens and fennel Foeniculum vulgare ( Latif et al , 2019 ; Saeed et al , 2008 ; Sánchez et al , 2022a ; Sánchez et al , 2022b ; Sánchez et al , 2022c ).…”