These mining bees nest on the ground in hardened paths.

A mining bee, L. leucozonium digs into the ground to make its nests.

Andrena agilissima is a species of mining bee.

The tawny mining bee is therefore classified amongst solitary and communal bees.

The wings of the willow mining bee are smokey, and their veins are black.

Andrena agilissima is a mining bee where the females only have a slightly larger head than the males.

Unable to forage herself, the old bee became hive guardian, as is customary among mining bees.

They had been dug months before by mining bees, and the entrances were "weathered" and worn.

Each female has her own nest and the ashy mining bee is therefore classified amongst solitary bees.

When the larvae hatch, they crawl up onto vegetation and hop onto passing mining bees.

There was a tiny colony of mining bees, their habits unchanged despite their greater size, here on the forgotten planet.

Mining bees dig burrows in bare sand, living individually or in small colonies.

There were the mining bee burrows.

The Tawny mining bee flies from March until May.

Andrena agilissima is a mining bee that is recognizable by its bluish color.

Larvae feed on mining bees.

Female Andrena agilissima, mining bees, frequent this plant to obtain pollen and nectar.

They have adopted solitary mining bees as their mascots, the Tickle Bees.

The family Andrenidae is specific to sand bees, andrenid bees, and mining bees.

Rare wildlife include mining bee Andrena marginata, as well as water voles and pine martens.

Andrena agilissima is another oligolectic mining bee that prefers different types of wild mustard and radish plants.

The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees.

Panurgus is a genus of mining bees belonging to the family Andrenidae subfamily Panurginae.

The ivy mining bee was recorded in this country for the first time in 2001 and has since spread along the south coast and is moving inland.

Not every entomology reference uses the nickname "mining bee;" a more commonly used name for these solitary, ground-nesting insects is andrenid bees.

Andrena furniture is guaranteed for a period of ten years.

Most Andrena bees are solitary and a few are communal.

Andrena Fielding has been selling Rural properties for the last 22 years.

Bombylius major larvae are parasitic on solitary bees including Andrena.

They occur worldwide, and use many different types of bees as hosts, primarily the genus Andrena.

"I want to be President," Andrena insisted.

The common large bee-fly Bombylius major was seen ovipositing amongst the Andrena burrows.

Given a lack of any features that would indicate placement into a different genus, the species was placed into Andrena until further specimens are recovered.

Pollinated by male Andrena bees.

"It's a nice little tourist eruption," said Andrena Erlirigsdottir, 38, owner of an adventure holiday company which is enjoying a business boom.

However, some insect genera such as the bee genera Lasioglossum and Andrena have over 1000 species each.

Andrena Identification Guide (female)

Tempany Deckert as Andrena (series 1)

The bee subfamily Andreninae is a nearly cosmopolitan lineage, with most of its diversity in one genus, Andrena, which contains over 1500 species.

Cleptoparasitism and odor mimetism in bees: do Nomada males imitate the odor of Andrena females?

The genus Andrena is one of the largest genus of bees and comprises the sand or solitary mining bees.

The flowers are pollinated by the bee Andrena hicksii and other Andrena species.

The plant is pollinated by bees of the genera Halictus, Lasioglossum, Dialictus, and Andrena.

These bees, as is typical in such cases, have greatly enlarged ocelli, though one crepuscular subgenus of Andrena has normal ocelli.

Ian Henderson, Managing Director, Fraser Communications "I use Andrena exclusively.

They resemble bees of the genus Andrena, though with radically different mouthparts and a scopa limited to the hind tibia and basitarsus.

Free-associating, Andrena, the clear beads in her ponytail rattling, wondered, "Why didn't Martin Luther King become President?"

In undisturbed habitats, this and other species of Lasthenia are pollinated by specialist bee species, primarily in the genus Andrena.

These are fully to predominantly outcrossing, usually pollinated by species of solitary bees in the genera Panurginus, Andrena and Hesperandrina.

Andrena salicifloris, commonly known as the willow mining bee, is a bee in the genus Andrena.