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Box-headed Blood Bee

Sphecodes monilicornis

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

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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.

United States	3,707
Alaska	3,707
United Kingdom	7
Germany	5
Belgium	5
Wallonne Gewest	5
England	4
Denmark	3
Northern Ireland	2
France	2

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

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
Family	Sweat Bees · Halictidae
Genus	Blood Bees · Sphecodes

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Box-headed Blood Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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