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Flavous Nomad Bee

Nomada flava

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) severinus, 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 136, February 101, March 158, April 248, May 358, June 390, July 417, August 359, September 264, October 197, November 108, December 84.
United States2,819
Alaska2,819
United Kingdom51
England46
Belgium37
Germany33
Wallonne Gewest21
France13
Denmark12
Netherlands11

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

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
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusNomad Bees · Nomada

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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