"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Sunday 8 May 2016

Sandpit Mining Bees

The Firs Car Park contains a sizeable colony of Sandpit Mining Bees - with much activity evident this weekend. The smaller males are white-haired, appearing grey in flight, whilst the larger females have a tawny-haired thorax.

Sandpit Mining Bee, Andrena barbilabris, Holme NWT, 7th May 2016 - female


Sandpit Mining Bee, Andrena barbilabris, Holme NWT, 7th May 2016 - male


Sandpit Mining Bee, Andrena barbilabris, Holme NWT, 7th May 2016 - female digging tunnel


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