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Large Scabious Mining Bee

Andrena hattorfiana

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 537, February 397, March 621, April 978, May 1,410, June 1,537, July 1,645, August 1,415, September 1,039, October 775, November 424, December 331.
United States11,109
Alaska11,108
Germany627
Austria405
Denmark335
France214
Russia167
Steiermark145
Bayern133
Midtjylland132

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

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