Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Andrena vaga; fam. Andrenidae ?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I have a feeling your other bee could be Andrena nigroaenea, I recognise the face, lol. When you look at them over and over like I have done evnetually some of the fog clears! That is only a 'maybe' though, if you could have seen the tail it would have been more certain as it has black hairs on the tail end.

http://www.bwars.com/andrena_nigroaenea.htm


Here's a face which I took when I disturbed it while cleaning up around some pots, it was hiding there. I feel fairly certain mine is A. nigroaenea, so will have to double check on that and make an entry for it here. This was on 11th April, a date is helpful too as you can often find when a bee is supposed to appear. It states on gardensafari from the beginning of April.

http://www.gardensafari.net/english/picpages/andrena_nigroae...