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Two-girdled Digger Wasp

Argogorytes mystaceus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) p_r_i_o_r, some rights reserved (CC BY)

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 205, February 151, March 237, April 373, May 538, June 586, July 628, August 540, September 396, October 296, November 162, December 126.
United States4,238
Alaska4,238
United Kingdom24
England17
Russia17
Germany11
Finland8
France7
Scotland5
Bayern5

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
FamilySquare-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies · Crabronidae
GenusArgogorytes

Sources

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