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Insects › Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees

Coast Leafcutter Bee

Megachile maritima

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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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.January 91, February 67, March 105, April 165, May 238, June 260, July 278, August 239, September 175, October 131, November 72, December 56.
United States1,877
Alaska1,877
Germany69
Brandenburg21
France20
Poland20
Sachsen-Anhalt16
United Kingdom13
England13
Spain12

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
FamilyMason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees · Megachilidae
GenusLeafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees · Megachile

Sources

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Practise Coast Leafcutter 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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