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Honey-tailed Striped Sweat Bee

Agapostemon melliventris

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 220, February 190, March 198, April 245, May 238, June 175, July 150, August 153, September 194, October 198, November 255, December 197.
United States7,385
California2,414
Arizona1,440
Nevada1,387
Texas948
New Mexico716
Utah380
Mexico120
Chihuahua52
Oregon26

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
GenusStriped Sweat Bees · Agapostemon

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