Sunflower burrowing-resin bee
Paranthidium jugatorium
The sunflower burrowing-resin bee is a wild bee from North and Central America. It does not live in a hive like a honey bee. It visits flowers for nectar and pollen.
Lives in
North America and Central 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)
Sunflower burrowing-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
Its family carries pollen on a brush of hairs under the belly, not on the legs like honey bees.
2
There are four slightly different forms of it in different places.
3
It was first described by a scientist named Say in 1824, about 200 years ago.
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Most asked questions about Sunflower burrowing-resin bee
?Where does the sunflower burrowing-resin bee live?
In North America and Central America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paranthidium jugatorium
- Named by
- Say, 1824
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Paranthidium jugatorium (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 (c) Emmett Collins-Sussman, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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