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Clover Cellophane Bee

Colletes marginatus

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 41, February 30, March 47, April 74, May 106, June 116, July 124, August 107, September 78, October 58, November 32, December 25.
United States838
Alaska838
Belgium3
Vlaams Gewest3
Portugal1
SETÚBAL1

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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