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Bryony Mining Bee

Andrena florea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) jouline05, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 80, February 59, March 93, April 146, May 210, June 229, July 245, August 211, September 155, October 115, November 63, December 49.
United States1,654
Alaska1,654
Germany207
France158
Hessen58
United Kingdom44
England44
Austria37
Bretagne36
Spain31

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
FamilyMiner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
GenusMining Bees · Andrena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Bryony Mining Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.