#3636 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Florentine Woolcarder Bee
🇳🇱 Geelschouderwolbij ·Anthidium florentinum
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what is it?
Anthidium florentinum , one of several European wool carder bees, is a territorial species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter, carder, or mason bees.
base stats
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,508 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Florentine Woolcarder Bee
- Nederlands
- Geelschouderwolbij
- scientific name
- Anthidium florentinum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Megachilidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,153
- sightings worldwide
- 6,508
- GBIF records in NL
- 16
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Megachilidae
#3510 📷 8Red Mason Bee
🇳🇱 Rosse metselbij
Osmia bicornis
👀 595 in NL
#3518 📷 10European Orchard Bee
🇳🇱 Gehoornde metselbij
Osmia cornuta
👀 364 in NL
#3539 📷 10European Woolcarder Bee
🇳🇱 Grote wolbij
Anthidium manicatum
👀 141 in NL
#3586 📷 10Banded Mud Bee
🇳🇱 Lathyrusbij
Megachile ericetorum
👀 39 in NL
#3605 📷 10Large-headed Armoured-Resin bee
🇳🇱 Tronkenbij
Heriades truncorum
👀 33 in NL
#3612 📷 7Blue Mason Bee
🇳🇱 Blauwe metselbij
Osmia caerulescens
👀 28 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 459050, Wikidata Q2709831, GBIF 1334802, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.