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Insects › Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees

Unarmed Leafcutter Bee

Megachile inermis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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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 152, April 298, May 572, June 268, July 202, August 182, September 192, October 157, November 98, December 88.
United States5,538
Canada4,874
Ontario2,398
Michigan2,023
Wisconsin1,688
Alaska398
Utah383
Quebec371
Nunavut371
New York285

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
FamilyMason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees · Megachilidae
GenusLeafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees · Megachile

Sources

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Practise Unarmed Leafcutter Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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