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29-06-2011, 02:00 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| |  Mystery Bee for ID
I've been umming and ahhing about this one for a couple of days now.
At first I thought it was a Bombus pascuorum - but it just doesn't look right! The legs look "bumblebee-like" but the thorax/abdomen don't. Any ideas?
Many thanks. Jane   |
29-06-2011, 06:01 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
Any ideas on this one anyone? I'm still stumped... Thanks. |
29-06-2011, 06:57 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
I'd say an Andrena sp. |
29-06-2011, 08:59 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
where was it photographed Jane? |
29-06-2011, 09:01 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
Front legs look wrong for an Andrena don't they? |
29-06-2011, 09:37 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
Hi Stuart. It was photographed at Cogdean Elms local nature reserve - which is an unimproved wildflower meadow right on the edge of Barrow Hill lowland heath in Corfe Mullen, Dorset.
It was the front legs that got me confused...
Only bee I could find with similar legs was Eucera sp. |
29-06-2011, 09:49 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
I was thinking more male Megachiline of some sort |
29-06-2011, 09:54 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Bee for ID
That would make more sense! 
There was me going off into fantasy land again... | | |
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