#3573 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
European Yellow Loosestrife Bee
🇳🇱 Gewone slobkousbij ·Macropis europaea
📍 Coevorden, Nederland
📍 Bellingwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
📍 De Geelders, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL
📍 Groesbeek, Netherlands
📍 Wageningen, NL
📍 6525 DK Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Driel, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Coevorden, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Bellingwedde, Groningen, Netherlands:© Dorine Post · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. De Geelders, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Groesbeek, Netherlands:© Tia l'Amie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6525 DK Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Driel, Netherlands:© Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Macropis europaea is a species of insect belonging to the family Melittidae.
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
- Spotted 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,075 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- European Yellow Loosestrife Bee
- Nederlands
- Gewone slobkousbij
- scientific name
- Macropis europaea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Melittidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 1,190
- sightings worldwide
- 2,075
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,413
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Melittidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 188686, Wikidata Q1883028, GBIF 1345909, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.