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Red Dwarf Honey Bee

Apis florea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) fmniepelt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

32 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in India.January 127, February 119, March 167, April 236, May 223, June 191, July 164, August 139, September 128, October 101, November 78, December 106.
India1,779
Thailand1,016
Mahārāshtra544
Singapore497
Karnātaka330
Bangkok284
Tamil Nādu244
NORTH REGION206
China162
Kerala129

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

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
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusHoney Bees · Apis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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