Shadow-winged resin bee
Megachile umbripennis
Name means: “shadow wing, after its dark wings”
The shadow-winged resin bee is a bee with dark, smoky wings. That is where its name comes from. It lives in some very different places, from southern Asia to Pacific islands and the east coast of the USA.
Lives in
Southern Asia, Pacific islands and the east coast of the USA
What does it eat?
Like other bees, it drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen for its babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Shadow-winged 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
1
It lives on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, in Asia and in America.
2
It belongs to the same family as the leafcutter bees.
3
A scientist named Frederick Smith first described it in 1853.
you asked
Most asked questions about Shadow-winged resin bee
?Why is it called shadow-winged?
Because its wings are dark, like a shadow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Megachile umbripennis
- Named by
- Smith, 1853
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America
Where the facts come from
- Megachile umbripennis (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 kbkash. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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