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Perkins' Mining Bee

Andrena rosae

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) moritzr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 121, February 89, March 140, April 220, May 318, June 347, July 371, August 319, September 234, October 175, November 95, December 75.
United States2,504
Alaska2,504
Poland27
Russia20
Masovian Voivodeship17
France16
Germany11
Belgium11
Wallonne Gewest8
Tomsk Oblast6

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