Although all latin names, authors, nbn keys are available in the species accounts, we don't yet have common names apart from for a few species. Will probably want to include common names for online recording.
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Submitted by admin on
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Due to the huge number of images, expanding a family such as Andrenidae can be pretty slow.
Consider reducing the number of images loaded into the gallery per species.
Submitted by Nigel Jones on
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The following observation was posted on the BWARS Forum by Nigel Jones on 29 April 2006:
I came across a female A. plumipes today. It flew in to a patch of Pulmonaria flowers, where males have been patrolling for some time. After landing it became very quiet and gripped the flower it landed on with it's mandibles. I was able to pick up the flower and photograph it, fully expecting it to fly off at any time. It… Read more
Submitted by Anonymous on
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This very small bee is a close relative of Andrena minutula (Kirby) and can be easily misidentified as such by the novice. The species is bivoltine. Perkins (1914) formerly treated the individuals of these broods as distinct species: Andrena parvuloides (spring) and Andrena minutuloides (summer). Later he relegated the name parvuloides to that of a junior synonym of minutuloides (Perkins, 1919).