#microandrena — Public Fediverse posts

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165385974

Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #entomology #insects #Andrena #MicroAndrena

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165385974

Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #entomology #insects #Andrena #MicroAndrena

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165385974

Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #entomology #insects #Andrena #MicroAndrena

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165385974

Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #entomology #insects #Andrena #MicroAndrena

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165385974

Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bees #entomology #insects #Andrena #MicroAndrena

The native bees are out!

Microandrena sp. in Cambridge, UK https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152286031

#iNaturalist #nativebees #entomology #Andrena #Hymenoptera #MicroAndrena