Hi. I tried to ID this bee earlier in the year (in May)
here but at the time Eucera said he couldn't really see what it was from the photo's I'd uploaded. It might still be impossible to ID from these extra photos, but I thought I'd upload them anyway.
It was sat outside what I "think" was an
Andrena fulva nest (which was hidden under a load of leaves at the side of the lawn).
In my "Bees of Surrey" book it says that the cleptoparasites of
Andrena fulva are
Nomada panzeri (males of which are very similar to
N. flava)and the very rare
N. signata. I'm discounting
N. signata as this bee below does not have a pair of "irregular yellow spots on the rear of the thorax". So is it a
Nomada panzeri?
I'm kind of assuming (maybe I shouldn't) that this is a female, as once the
Andrena sp. came out of the nest, the
Nomada sp. went straight in (presumably to lay eggs).
Or maybe it's not an
Andrena fulva nest at all, in which case it could be another
Nomada sp entirely!
Would like to hear what others think. Thanks. Jane
