Friday, 17 April 2020

New Species - Tawny Mining Bee

After many failures at identifying bees from photographs I have at last succeeded in adding the Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) to The Beeches list. My ID has been confirmed by our local bee expert as well. It is a very handsome bee with reddish hairs on the thorax and deep orange hairs on the abdomen. It was usefully pollinating the blackcurrants when photographed.

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