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Dark-winged Sweat Bee

Lasioglossum fuscipenne

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 106, February 114, March 125, April 204, May 265, June 131, July 106, August 103, September 124, October 115, November 95, December 97.
United States5,459
Virginia1,585
Maryland1,468
North Carolina299
West Virginia230
New York197
Massachusetts185
New Jersey172
Missouri146
Georgia140

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
GenusLasioglossum

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