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Insects › Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees

Neighborly Mining Bee

Andrena vicina

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 110, February 109, March 147, April 256, May 441, June 215, July 162, August 148, September 172, October 159, November 108, December 100.
United States9,301
New York2,127
Canada2,100
Ontario1,510
Maryland1,043
Virginia1,017
Vermont769
Massachusetts662
West Virginia548
Michigan520

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyMiner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
GenusMining Bees · Andrena

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