Northern rotund-resin bee

Anthidiellum notatum

The northern rotund-resin bee is a small, roundish wild bee from North America. It does not live in a hive. It visits flowers for nectar and pollen.

Lives in

North America

Top speed

about 22 km/h (14 mph)

Can it hurt you?

Can sting

What does it eat?

It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed its babies.

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

Northern rotund-resin 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

Resin bees are named after the sticky tree resin they use to build their nests.

Its family carries pollen on a brush of hairs under the belly, not on the legs like honey bees.

There are five slightly different forms of it in different parts of North America.

you asked

?Where does the northern rotund-resin bee live?

In North America.

Anthidiellum notatum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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