Skip to content

Insects › Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies

Yellow-legged Nomad Bee

Nomada succincta

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) jolinarm, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 59, February 44, March 69, April 108, May 156, June 170, July 182, August 157, September 115, October 86, November 47, December 37.
United States1,230
Alaska1,230
France53
Occitanie34
Germany31
Finland12
Uusimaa12
Schleswig-Holstein12
Spain11
Niedersachsen10

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

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
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusNomad Bees · Nomada

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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