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Tawny Mining Bee

Andrena fulva

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 1,569, February 1,158, March 1,815, April 2,856, May 4,117, June 4,490, July 4,804, August 4,132, September 3,033, October 2,264, November 1,237, December 967.
United States32,442
Alaska32,442
United Kingdom3,092
England2,937
Germany1,244
Denmark1,077
Poland412
France362
Midtjylland357
Hovedstaden273

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
FamilyMiner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
GenusMining Bees · Andrena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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