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Tripartite Sweat Bee

Halictus tripartitus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Dakota.January 228, February 243, March 490, April 1,064, May 2,424, June 1,850, July 1,366, August 957, September 756, October 457, November 275, December 244.
United States125,824
South Dakota10,354
Arizona10,202
California7,815
Colorado6,604
Nevada6,473
Washington6,062
Oregon4,743
Texas2,091
Idaho1,024

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
GenusFurrow Bees · Halictus

Sources

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Practise Tripartite Sweat 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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