#3567 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Ashy Mining Bee

🇳🇱 Asbij ·Andrena cineraria

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Leon van der Noll · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Rachel · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Michel Renou · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Wolf-Achim and Hanna Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © CÃ©cile Bassaglia · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Noordoostelijk van Schaarsbergen, Arnhem, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 6525 GN Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
10. Everdingen, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

The ashy mining bee or grey mining bee , Andrena cineraria , is a European species of the sand bee ( Andrena ) genus. Its distinctive colouring makes it one of the most easily recognised of the genus. The females are black, with two broad grey hair bands across the thorax. The male is also black although the thorax is entirely covered with grey hairs. The male has a tuft of white hairs on the lower face and white hairs...

base stats

NL sightings 65iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,641iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).