Summary[edit] Description: Females share a common entry during nesting. Underground however each female takes care of her own chamber. Using the same entrance without being a real structured community is called communal. Because many chambers share one exit, fresh animals meet eachother in this exit while trying to get out for the first time in spring. Males try to mate immediately, so in many cases the females have been fertilized even before seeing daylight. In Dutch this Mining Bee is called the Hawthorn Bee. Date: 8 May 2011, 11:10. Source: Andrena sp. female (possibly A. carantonica). Author: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. Camera location52° 07′ 13.13″ N, 2° 23′ 50.41″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 52.120314; -2.397336.
Summary[edit] Description: Sunflowers. Specifically, the genus Helianthus to separate out the other "sunflower" plants. Only found in North America. So tall and glorious that we have adopted many for our gardens. Thrusting skyward they telegraph their supply of pollen and nectar to the bees that only feed their young pollen of Sunflower. Here is one of them. The appropriately named A. helainthi. How nice that it was found tucked in Hartville, OH by MaLisa Spring. Photo by Anders Croft. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200. Date: 14 March 2018, 21:55. Source: Andrena helianthi, u, right side, Hartville Ohio_2018-03-06-20.36. Author: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
Andrena spiraeana is one of the set of bees in the Andrena subgenus Trachandrena. One of the characteristics of this relatively distinctive group are the deeply impressed fovea between the compound eyes and the antennae. A spring bee, I associate this species with wooded wetlands...but I may be simply mistaken on that account. Picture taken by the awesome intern Hannah Sutton. 17:27, 1 April 2016 (UTC)17:27, 1 April 2016 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}17:27, 1 April 2016 (UTC)17:27, 1 April 2016 (UTC) All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know " Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840