Bee ID England please (1 Viewer)

colincurry

Well-known member

• Apr 17, 2016

• #1

Help please.

New season and nothing changes. Have gone through my bee/insect books and nothing looks like this - is it me?

Thanks

Colin

 

Andy Adcock

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• Apr 17, 2016

• #2

Andrena fulva, Tawny Mining Bee?

https://www.google.com/search?site=...1.1.0....0...1ac.2.64.img..0.1.70.478TfRTTelE

Andy

 

colincurry

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2016

• #3

Thanks very much.

Must get a better book.

Colin

 

prhodes

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• Apr 21, 2016

• #4

As a fellow novice, I purchased a copy of Field Guide to the Bees of GB and Ireland, Falk and Lewington, and was the delighted to find the front cover species in Bedfordshire, Ashy Mining Bee (unless I'm mistaken of course).

Still hoping to get a picture of the Tawny Mining Bee.

Phil

 

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ApusApus

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2016

• #5

prhodes said:

As a fellow novice, I purchased a copy of Field Guide to the Bees of GB and Ireland, Falk and Lewington, and was the delighted to find the front cover species in Bedfordshire, Ashy Mining Bee (unless I'm mistaken of course).

Still hoping to get a picture of the Tawny Mining Bee.

Phil

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You're not mistaken, it is Andrena cineraria ....... a female by the looks of it!


Shane

 

prhodes

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2016

• #6

Thanks Shane, appreciated. Very attractive little insects, these mining bees.