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Modest Masked Bee

Hylaeus modestus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 169, February 167, March 226, April 394, May 677, June 331, July 249, August 227, September 264, October 244, November 166, December 154.
United States15,237
New York3,268
Canada2,961
Ontario1,797
New Jersey1,125
Virginia955
Pennsylvania814
Michigan806
Maryland735
West Virginia692

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
GenusMasked Bees · Hylaeus

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