Hawthorn mining bee
Andrena crataegi
The hawthorn mining bee is a wild bee from North America. Mining bees do not live in hives. Each mother digs her own little tunnel in the ground for her babies.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed its babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Hawthorn mining bee about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Mining bees got their name because they dig their nests in the soil, like tiny miners.
2
It belongs to the same big insect group as ants, wasps and other bees.
3
It lives in North America.
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Most asked questions about Hawthorn mining bee
?Where does the hawthorn mining bee live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Andrena crataegi
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Andrenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Andrenidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Hawthorn miner bee, Hawthorn andrena
Where the facts come from
- Andrena crataegi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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