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Potter Flower Bee

Anthophora retusa

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25 photos

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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 178, February 132, March 206, April 324, May 468, June 510, July 546, August 469, September 345, October 257, November 141, December 110.
United States3,686
Alaska3,686
Sweden58
Germany27
Stockholms län23
Uppsala län15
France12
Brandenburg12
Netherlands10
Spain8

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
GenusCommon Digger Bees · Anthophora

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Potter Flower 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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