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Busy bees

            Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) is a clear sign of the spring arriving for me.  

These brightly coloured but small discrete bees are one of our earliest out in the year and this year I’ve seen good numbers around urban parks and gardens, I’ve even found them at work sitting on the wall in the sunshine.

For a couple of weeks though there was no sign they were collecting pollen yet but the temperatures have finally started to climb and the blossoms on the hawthorn and blackthorn opening seems to have been the trigger.

Having spent a while watching how they move around the bushes I reckoned I had a chance of catching them in flight as they are fairly methodical and it was successful at the first attempt.

Taken in: UK / England / Glanton (show map)

Taken on: April 14, 2021

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Andrena fulva

Bee

Flying Bee

Mining Bee

Tawny Mining Bee

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Macro

Northumberland

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Sigma

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Red and Orange Bee

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Groups appears in: • INSECTS • Flying Insects more » • Bees, bees, bees! • Insect Photography • Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants of Europe (NO Honey Bees PLEASE) • British Insects & other Arthropods • FLICKR INSECTS • Spectacular Insects • Bees Please • INSECTS ARE BEAUTIFUL. • ALL ABOUT INSECTS & SPIDERS • Countryfile • British Bees, Wasps and Ants (Hymenoptera) • Bee Spotting • BBC Springwatch (Official) • bees and other insects • Birds, Bats, Bees & Butterflies • North East England Wildlife/Nature Photography Group • BEAUTIFUL BEES. • Insects of the World • Insects, Bugs, and Butterflies • Andrena - Mining bee - Zandbijen • Wild About Northumberland • !!!Insects Around the World!!! • British Insects! • Our Wonderful and Fragile World - P1 - A4 • Northumbrian Wildlife • This is Nature • Bees and Blooms • North East England Bird, Insect and Animal Photographs • Insects, Spiders, Frogs, Snails and Slugs • Wildlife in North East England « less

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