Hairy-footed Flower Bee Anthophora plumipes
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The Hairy-footed Flower Bee is one of the earliest species to appear in Spring and is a difficult species to photograph, due to their very fast, darting flight. The male is shown in the top four photographs, the virtually all black female is shown below.
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UK distribution of Anthophora plumipes
 

The UK distribution maps on eakringbirds.com are provided by the National Biodiversity Network (NBN Gateway) Each red square on the map indicates species present in 10km grid squares.

Updated September 2011

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