Chocolate Mining Bee Andrena scotica (Perkins, R.C.L., 1916) | ||
A large solitary species, around the same size as a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) and for which there seem to be few modern Nottinghamshire records. The only recent records we know of, are from Sherwood Forest CP in 1985 (Archer, M.) and most recently from Dyscarr Wood in April 2017 (Bradford, P.) and Mapperley in Nottingham. Our thanks go to Pauline Bradford, for very kindly supplying us with both upper images and lower right. | ||
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Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Andrena scotica |
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