Yellow-collared masked bee
Hylaeus euxanthus
The yellow-collared masked bee is a small bee from Australia. Masked bees have pale markings on their faces, a bit like a little mask. Unlike many bees, they are not fuzzy.
Lives in
Australia
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed its young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Yellow-collared masked 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
Masked bees do not carry pollen on their legs. They swallow it and carry it home in their tummy.
2
It was first named in 1910, but the name was already taken by another bee.
3
The same year, the scientist gave it a new name, the one it still has today.
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Most asked questions about Yellow-collared masked bee
?Where does the yellow-collared masked bee live?
In Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hylaeus euxanthus
- Named by
- Cockerell, 1910
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Colletidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Colletidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Hylaeus euxanthus (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 Sarah McCaffrey, Museum Victoria. CC BY 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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