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Buffish Mining Bee

Andrena nigroaenea

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 654, February 483, March 757, April 1,192, May 1,718, June 1,873, July 2,005, August 1,724, September 1,266, October 945, November 516, December 403.
United States13,537
Alaska13,537
United Kingdom318
England287
Germany263
Denmark160
France132
Syddanmark58
Occitanie56
Niedersachsen52

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