orange tailed mining bee – Jill Orme Photography

7 May 2025

Dapper

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

This morning I looked at the long front border I sorted out last month and realised that it was being reclaimed by pernicious weeds, and I was going to have to do something about it. So bang went my planned … Continued

13 May 2024

Tidy

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

This was one of two female Orange-tailed Mining Bees (Andrena haemorrhoa) that were working the variegated spurge this morning. There was also one Tawny Miner, now faded to a deep buff colour, but she was much less cooperative about having … Continued

9 Apr 2023

Spring fresh

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I have two lovely fresh female mining bees for you today, both photographed in the brief window of opportunity between our last weekend guests leaving in sunshine at lunch time, and the weather closing in less than an hour later. … Continued

13 Apr 2019

X-rated

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

In all the hours I’ve spent stalking various species of solitary bee I only remember seeing one other incidence of copulation, and that was a pair of Melecta albifrons, nearly three years ago. Today I was checking the usual bee … Continued

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