Wee bee ID plea...

[The Black Rabbit]

Not my best photo, but this tiny wee bee just would not sit still!
Any chance of an ID please? - I'm amazed by its eyes!
Length - tiny - maybe 7mm long? (Thats a thin bamboo pole its resting (briefly) on).
Many thanks.

Could it be Andrena marginata, or is this just me getting it wildly wrong again?
TBR

[eucera]

I'm afraid that in this instance, you are wildly wrong!! I wonder where you get these names from?

Andrena marginata is a mining bee, flying in late summer, and associated with the flowers of Small Scabious and/or Devil's Bit Scabious and consequently found on calcareous grasslands and damp acid heathland. It is a declining species over much of its European range. There are pics in the BWARS Gallery which are far more useful than anything in Chinery's book

This one is, however, clearly a Spring species. They nest in existing cavities. It is a male of an Osmia species and almost certainy O. caerulescens

[The Black Rabbit]

Originally Posted by eucera

I'm afraid that in this instance, you are wildly wrong!! I wonder where you get these names from?

Andrena marginata is a mining bee, flying in late summer, and associated with the flowers of Small Scabious and/or Devil's Bit Scabious and consequently found on calcareous grasslands and damp acid heathland. It is a declining species over much of its European range. There are pics in the BWARS Gallery which are far more useful than anything in Chinery's book

This one is, however, clearly a Spring species. They nest in existing cavities. It is a male of an Osmia species and almost certainy O. caerulescens

An old book!
Thankyou kindly.
TBR.