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Common Slender-bodied Digger Wasp

Crabro cribrarius

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 318, February 235, March 368, April 579, May 834, June 910, July 973, August 837, September 615, October 459, November 251, December 196.
United States6,578
Alaska6,573
Germany46
United Kingdom39
Denmark36
France27
England25
Syddanmark15
Finland12
Netherlands12

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
FamilySquare-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies · Crabronidae
GenusShield-handed Wasps · Crabro

Sources

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