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Common Masked Bee

Hylaeus communis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 934, February 690, March 1,080, April 1,700, May 2,451, June 2,672, July 2,860, August 2,459, September 1,806, October 1,348, November 736, December 576.
United States19,311
Alaska19,311
Germany70
United Kingdom59
England52
Canada35
Quebec33
Austria22
Russia22
Bayern19

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
FamilyPlasterer Bees · Colletidae
GenusMasked Bees · Hylaeus

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