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

Aster Mining Bee

Andrena asteris

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 21, February 21, March 28, April 49, May 84, June 41, July 31, August 28, September 33, October 30, November 21, December 19.
United States1,769
New York404
Canada383
Ontario321
Massachusetts273
Michigan155
Illinois128
Connecticut127
Vermont102
Minnesota57

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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