Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Miner bee?

Posted by Larry Shone on 29-05-2010 20:20
#1
Found this recently dead in my bath.
img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnrider/Photographic/Macro%20and%20Close%20up/BeefromRAW01.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnrider/Photographic/Macro%20and%20Close%20up/deadbee01.jpg

I have been informed its probably a Miner Bee but not sure of genus.

Posted by Galeodes33 on 31-05-2010 16:32
#2
I am not an expert at Apoids, but it looks like an Andrenidae or Megachilidae.

Posted by Matt Smith on 31-05-2010 16:39
#3
It is a species of Andrena

Posted by Galeodes33 on 31-05-2010 16:53
#4
MAybe this will help ( http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/INSECTA__Hymenoptera__Andrenidae.html):)