| A fairly
distinctive solitary bee, with both males and females showing
distinctive buff-coloured hair bands on the abdomen. There are two
generations a year and Andrena flavipes has undergone a
northerly expansion of its UK range in recent years. In Spring 2019, we
found good numbers nesting on a south-facing bank side of former
colliery spoil, on a brownfield site at New Ollerton. The only other
Nottinghamshire records we know of, are a 2002 record from Hungerhill
Allotments in Nottingham (per Nottinghamshire
City Council) and from the former Rufford Colliery in 2020, when
found by Tim Sexton who also provided the photographs of the male (lower
photographs). |
