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Heather Cellophane Bee

Colletes succinctus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 198, February 146, March 229, April 361, May 520, June 567, July 607, August 522, September 383, October 286, November 156, December 122.
United States4,096
Alaska4,096
Poland31
Masovian Voivodeship27
United Kingdom23
England17
Germany12
Ireland11
Denmark7
Belgium5

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
FamilyPlasterer Bees · Colletidae
GenusCellophane Bees · Colletes

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