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Grey-backed Mining Bee

Andrena vaga

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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 Alaska.

United States	25,877
Alaska	25,877
Germany	727
Russia	361
Poland	230
Denmark	210
Finland	178
Niedersachsen	161
Netherlands	135
Belgium	112

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

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
Family	Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
Genus	Mining Bees · Andrena

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Grey-backed Mining 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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