AbstractAnthecological observations on an orchidCremastra appendiculatavar.variabiliswere carried out during May and June, 1994, in Kobe, Japan. The pendulous, tube‐shaped flowers were visited by three species of bees and two of syrphid flies. Only queens of a long‐tongued bumble beeBombus diversus diversusreceived the pollinarium on one of their fore‐femora. The frequencies ofBombusflower visits were extremely low. A carpenter bee,Xylocopa appendiculata circumvolans, consistently robbed nectar by making a perforation at the flower