Insects › Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees

Small Sallow Mining Bee

Andrena praecox

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 338, February 250, March 392, April 616, May 888, June 968, July 1,036, August 891, September 654, October 488, November 267, December 209.
United States6,998
Alaska6,998
Finland50
Germany26
Denmark25
Uusimaa19
Russia19
Poland17
Austria16
Masovian Voivodeship14

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