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Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp

Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 74, February 75, March 119, April 234, May 449, June 210, July 242, August 362, September 151, October 123, November 77, December 69.
United States11,805
Canada2,100
Ontario1,882
New York1,405
Massachusetts963
Virginia764
Michigan720
New Jersey691
Texas668
Ohio613

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
GenusBicyrtes

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