A Mining Bee volcano spoil heap
A trip to Emsworthy Mire is always a good day, even when the weather isn’t nice.
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Today it’s lovely weather and the view of the barn sheltered by trees is charming. Underfoot I notice a perfect hole in the ground. It’s the sign of a solitary bee, a Mining Bee. There are 65 species of Mining Bee in Britain. They’re all in the genus Andrena.
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I’d love to know which one this is. The Tawny Mining Bee perhaps? Or maybe the Ashy Mining Bee? Or perhaps it’s the Ivy Mining Bee? At the moment all I have to go on is a hole in the ground.