A leaf-cutter
bee found widely across the southern-half of the UK and with scattered
records northwards into Lancashire and Yorkshire. On the distribution
map supplied on the NBN Atlas, the three counties of Nottinghamshire,
Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, all seem largely free of records, which may
just be down to the lack of interest towards Hymenoptera.
The one illustrated here, was found and photographed by Tim Sexton at
the former Rufford Colliery site near Rainworth in July 2022.
Megachile ligniseca was mentioned as having been recorded from
Attenborough at some time, on a listed provided for this website a
number of years ago, but the record cannot be confirmed. |
