#3542 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Hairy-footed Flower Bee

🇳🇱 Gewone sachembij ·Anthophora plumipes

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

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

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © Sebastian Riedl · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alex Playford · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Miroslav Marić · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Miroslav Marić · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The hairy-footed flower bee ( Anthophora plumipes ) is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae....

base stats

NL sightings 126iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,016iNaturalist 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 126 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #40 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
15,016 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1772 (254 years ago).