#3526 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Tawny Mining Bee

🇳🇱 Vosje ·Andrena fulva

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © sheriff_kelly · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Anders Illum · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Dluogs · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Julia Moning · CC BY 4.0
6. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. Poolserweg, Winterswijk Meddo, Gelderland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Nieuwe Tiend, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. 6525 DK Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The tawny mining bee , Andrena fulva , is a European species of the sand bee ( Andrena ) genus. 4 in) long. It is covered with hair: fox-red on its back and black on its underside.

base stats

NL sightings 209iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,672iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).

fun facts

Spotted 209 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #24 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
10,672 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1766 (260 years ago).