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#andrena

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Climate Jenny 2.1

I can’t let ground-nesting bee season pass without sharing a photo. These little sweeties, presumably Andrena barbara, are flying all around my yard like a cloud of tiny pollen fairies. They are busily provisioning hundreds of underground tunnels with balls of pollen for their young to eat over the rest of the year.

Next spring, when the temperature hits about 55 degrees F and the Red Maple blooms, the next generation will emerge and start all over again. #bees #andrena

Cute headshot of a very furry little bee, with big black eyes, a long segmented antenna, and lots of bright yellow fur on face, thorax, and legs. I wonder if the fur is related to being a bee that works outside when it’s still cold?
Dozens and dozens of little mounds of sandy dirt around tiny holes, dug by the ground-nesting bees in the sideyard.
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Albert Cardona

Andrena niveata, a micro-mining bee. With two beautiful white bands on its face.
inaturalist.org/observations/1

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.

A small largely black bee with white hairs, black eyes and antennae, and two white bands vertically lining the medial side of the eyes. Sits on a group of small white flowers, foraging, against a blurred green background.
#iNaturalist#Hymenoptera#nativebees
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Orewoet

I was too late for some decent birding from the garden today as it was a busy Saturday. But i did see a few bees on big sunlit leaves and tried to get a picture of one of them. Without an "insect-lens" it is hard to do, but I liked this one nevertheless.
Unfortunately it probably can't be identified more precise than "mining bee" (Andrena), but that will do fine then.

inaturalist.org/observations/1

A Mining bee seen from a 45 degree angle from above on a big green leave. The mining bee has a lot of white or yellow hair, on it's face, breast, chest and legs.
#Denmark#Insects#Insekter
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