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

Sunflower Mining Bee

Andrena helianthi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 20, February 19, March 26, April 46, May 79, June 38, July 29, August 26, September 31, October 28, November 19, December 18.
United States2,224
New York380
Canada284
Ontario246
Vermont216
Utah186
Illinois185
Colorado160
Minnesota139
Michigan124

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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