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Deep-blue Sweat Bee

Lasioglossum coeruleum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 22, February 22, March 29, April 51, May 88, June 43, July 32, August 29, September 34, October 32, November 22, December 20.
United States2,321
New York424
Maryland379
Virginia362
Canada348
Ontario342
New Jersey151
Pennsylvania130
West Virginia116
Massachusetts107

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
FamilySweat Bees · Halictidae
GenusLasioglossum

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