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cuckoo bee?
MrEd
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Posted on 25-05-2008 18:58
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Is this a cuckoo bee?
Photographed during may in southern england. was crawlig on the floor under tree cover near a running river. not many of them were about, but there were other different types of bee nearby

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nomada flava?

and is this one a mining bee? it kept crawling out of holes on the ground shot in the same place as the above photo.

farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2462483876_cd633453b1.jpg
Edited by MrEd on 25-05-2008 19:01
 
Christian Schmid-Egger
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Yes, a Nomada sp.

Regards, Christian
 
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MrEd
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many thanks
 
Christian Schmid-Egger
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Below, it is an Andrena female, probabely A. haemorroha. Nomada is a parasit of Andrena, but I cannot say if both are host-parasit.

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