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Painted Nomad Bee

Nomada fucata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) miruel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 136, February 100, March 157, April 247, May 357, June 389, July 416, August 358, September 263, October 196, November 107, December 84.
United States2,811
Alaska2,811
United Kingdom111
England100
Germany80
Belgium26
Niedersachsen22
Denmark16
Wallonne Gewest14
Bayern12

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