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

Hawthorn Mining Bee

Andrena crataegi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 176, February 174, March 235, April 411, May 707, June 345, July 260, August 237, September 276, October 254, November 174, December 161.
United States11,591
New York3,411
Canada2,856
Ontario2,522
Massachusetts899
Illinois726
Connecticut611
Utah592
Michigan556
North Carolina342

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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