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Hairy-saddled Cellophane Bee

Colletes fodiens

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 75, February 55, March 87, April 137, May 197, June 215, July 230, August 198, September 145, October 108, November 59, December 46.
United States1,553
Alaska1,553
Germany25
Sachsen9
Berlin5
Russia5
Niedersachsen4
Kirov Oblast4
Poland2
Brandenburg2

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
FamilyPlasterer Bees · Colletidae
GenusCellophane Bees · Colletes

Sources

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