European rotund-resin bee
Anthidiellum strigatum
The European rotund-resin bee is a small, round bee. It belongs to the resin bees, which use sticky plant resin to build their nests. It lives on three different continents.
Lives in
Europe, Asia and Africa
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)
European 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
1
Rotund means round and plump, which fits its chubby little body.
2
It is a cousin of the leafcutter bees.
3
It comes in three slightly different forms, called subspecies, that live in different places.
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Most asked questions about European rotund-resin bee
?Where does the European rotund-resin bee live?
In Europe, Asia and Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthidiellum strigatum
- Named by
- Panzer, 1805
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Anthidiellum strigatum (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 This image is created by user Dick Belgers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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