May 15
A mustached mining bee (Andrena sp.)
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A mustached mining bee (Andrena sp.)
I made some bullshit today.
#Andrenafulvaforever
All of the insects except number 5 are parasites of this species. Number 5 is a male bee, the orange one is the female.
Images 1 and 2 are taken from BWARS, image 5 belongs to mattcolephotography, image 6 comes from cirrusimage.come, image 2 comes from the Wikipedia page for Bombylius major and image 4 comes from research gate and the photo was done by John T Smit.
A beautiful little bee!
Andrena fucata/hallonsandbi, a mining bee. Värmland, Sweden (June 15, 2025).
Mining Bee and Bumblebee
look at this sweet pollinated tawny mining bee :3
there were so many flying about and some landed on me and NEARLY MY FACE
Pictures from a couple days ago :).
Top: Male of Chrysochraon dispar (GER: Große Goldschrecke), Center: An artistically challenging Northern Dune Tiger Beetle Cicindela hybrida (GER: Dünen-Sandlaufkäfer), Bottom: A female Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (GER: Kohlschwarze Sandbiene), feeding on fennel flowers.