Thread subject: Diptera.info :: cuckoo bee?

Posted by MrEd on 25-05-2008 19:58
#1
Is this a cuckoo bee?
Photographed during may in southern england. was crawlig on the floor under tree cover near a running river. not many of them were about, but there were other different types of bee nearby

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nomada flava?

and is this one a mining bee? it kept crawling out of holes on the ground shot in the same place as the above photo.

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Edited by MrEd on 25-05-2008 20:01

Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 25-05-2008 20:00
#2
Yes, a Nomada sp.

Regards, Christian

Posted by MrEd on 25-05-2008 20:17
#3
many thanks

Posted by Christian Schmid-Egger on 26-05-2008 08:28
#4
Below, it is an Andrena female, probabely A. haemorroha. Nomada is a parasit of Andrena, but I cannot say if both are host-parasit.

Regards, Christian