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Unequal Cellophane Bee

Colletes inaequalis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 94, February 96, March 153, April 318, May 574, June 269, July 203, August 183, September 193, October 158, November 99, December 88.
United States12,217
Canada2,898
Ontario2,408
New York1,134
Virginia1,038
Maryland977
Massachusetts679
Illinois673
Vermont649
Pennsylvania542

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
FamilyPlasterer Bees · Colletidae
GenusCellophane Bees · Colletes

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