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Coppice Mining Bee

Andrena helvola

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 272, February 201, March 315, April 495, May 714, June 779, July 833, August 716, September 526, October 393, November 215, December 168.
United States5,626
Alaska5,626
Denmark23
Germany22
United Kingdom8
England8
Syddanmark8
Netherlands7
Niedersachsen7
Hovedstaden6

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