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Sinuous Bee Fly

Hemipenthes sinuosa

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 0, February 1, March 6, April 92, May 102, June 103, July 23, August 5, September 3, October 29, November 0, December 0.
Texas364
California245
Ontario173
Colorado54
British Columbia41
New Mexico38
Minnesota36
Oklahoma35
Wisconsin31
Illinois29

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

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderFlies · Diptera
FamilyBee Flies · Bombyliidae
GenusHemipenthes

Sources

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Practise Sinuous Bee Fly 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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