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Trout-lily Mining Bee

Andrena erythronii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 13, February 13, March 17, April 30, May 52, June 25, July 19, August 17, September 20, October 19, November 13, December 12.
United States1,113
New York251
Illinois225
Canada224
Ontario145
Missouri143
Vermont118
Indiana94
New Jersey45
New Hampshire41

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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