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Insects › Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees

Banded Mud Bee

Megachile ericetorum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 164, February 121, March 190, April 299, May 431, June 470, July 503, August 433, September 318, October 237, November 130, December 101.
United States3,431
Alaska3,397
Germany431
Austria121
Bayern81
Poland76
Steiermark61
Baden-Württemberg60
Niedersachsen57
France56

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
FamilyMason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees · Megachilidae
GenusLeafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees · Megachile

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