Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Insects › Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies

Hump-backed Beewolf

Philanthus gibbosus

Learn Hump-backed Beewolf freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kmcgeorge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 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.

See all photosAdd a photo

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 Ontario.January 83, February 85, March 135, April 264, May 507, June 237, July 305, August 409, September 170, October 139, November 87, December 78.
United States11,861
Canada2,708
Ontario2,125
New York1,704
Massachusetts1,150
Virginia961
Maryland830
Michigan743
New Jersey643
Ohio588

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
GenusBeewolves · Philanthus

Study it in a deck

Or build your own from the species near you.

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Hump-backed Beewolf with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

Create a free accountHow it works