Insects › Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees

Sunflower Burrowing-Resin bee

Paranthidium jugatorium

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 Arizona.January 49, February 45, March 60, April 80, May 73, June 36, July 44, August 60, September 39, October 37, November 38, December 43.
United States2,212
Arizona604
Canada323
Ontario323
North Carolina252
New York202
Minnesota178
Tennessee171
Virginia156
West Virginia118

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
GenusParanthidium

Sources

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Practise Sunflower Burrowing-Resin bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.