Are these Andrena bicolors pls?

[Dillybythesea]

We had a lot of these in the garden today. Not quite as gingery as the bee you kindly identified for me last week as Andrena bicolor, and without such a lot of ginger on the hindleg, but probably the same?

Also, and forgive the indelicacy, one deposited a huge amount of something (yellow in foreground!) while I was taking pics - is this normal? Thanks as ever!

And this was another of them.

[tristanba]

not A. bicolor, more like A. scotica, a larger species

[Dillybythesea]

Thank you tristanba. I've googled Images for A. scotica and can see it looks just like that! And wld account for seeing several of them all of a sudden, from the sound of it!

[Jason Green]

Evening Dilly,

Originally Posted by tristanba

not A. bicolor, more like A. scotica, a larger species

My first thought was that it isn't quite bicolor, too - so how different would this one be to A. carantonica which would have been my suggestion? I find them all pretty confusing, so would appreciate the input from someone more experienced in these than me!

Take care,

Jason

[tristanba]

Jason, scotica = carantonica - I forget which is the newer name

[Jason Green]

Thanks Tristan - it must be scotica then.

[Matt Smith]

Originally Posted by tristanba

Jason, scotica = carantonica - I forget which is the newer name

The current name is Andrena carantonica - A.scotica is a junior (ie younger) synonym for the same species.

[Dillybythesea]

Thank you very much tristanba, Jason and Matt! (Reading the thread feels like hiding on the stairs listening to the adults talk - wondeful!)