Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bee identification

Posted by buggub on 06-05-2012 15:48
#1
Hi,

can you please id this bee species. The nest is in the ground.

Thanks.

Posted by buggub on 07-05-2012 20:30
#2
Forgot to mention that this bee was photographed in Slovenia.

Posted by buggub on 07-05-2012 20:33
#3
another photo

Posted by buggub on 07-05-2012 20:39
#4
Here is the video when she cleans the entrance. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdll/7007371516/ .

One question, does this bee species uses the silk to hold the soil in her nest hole. Maybe i am very wrong but it looks like this on the video.
Edited by buggub on 07-05-2012 20:42

Posted by Gerrit Oehm on 07-05-2012 20:43
#5
I would say Adrena sp.
But I do not know the species.

Posted by Marc T on 10-05-2012 06:58
#6
Hi together, the specimen might be too "plump" for Andrena sp., I'd say it might rather be an Anthophora plumipes female (not sure!).
Sometimes they dig their nests in dry soil, as far as I know they line the nest chambers with some waxy secretion.

Brgds, Marc