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Sugarbag Bee

Tetragonula carbonaria

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) toblerone0902, 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 Australia.January 69, February 43, March 58, April 58, May 37, June 13, July 18, August 57, September 106, October 98, November 84, December 73.
Australia714
New South Wales645
Queensland69

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
GenusTetragonula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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