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Common Mourning Bee

Melecta albifrons

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 113, February 83, March 131, April 206, May 296, June 323, July 346, August 297, September 218, October 163, November 89, December 70.
United States2,335
Alaska2,335
United Kingdom244
Germany244
England241
Poland99
Austria56
Masovian Voivodeship56
France51
Baden-Württemberg40

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
GenusMourning Bees · Melecta

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