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

Carlin's Mining Bee

Andrena carlini

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Maryland.January 317, February 327, March 376, April 600, May 820, June 391, July 322, August 320, September 382, October 353, November 291, December 287.
United States24,205
Maryland4,786
Virginia4,510
New York3,101
Canada2,368
Ontario2,068
Pennsylvania1,610
West Virginia1,593
Massachusetts1,289
Illinois905

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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