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Dunning's Miner

Andrena dunningi

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) thomasirvine, some rights reserved (CC BY)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 34, February 35, March 56, April 109, May 210, June 98, July 74, August 67, September 70, October 58, November 36, December 32.
United States2,539
Canada1,910
Ontario881
New York578
Quebec507
Pennsylvania384
Michigan285
Minnesota216
Manitoba195
Massachusetts177

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

Sources

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