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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Four-spotted Cuckoo Bee

Nomada leucophthalma

About

A wasp-like cuckoo bee with reddish-brown and yellow markings that parasitizes Andrena mining bees. It is one of the earliest flying spring bees in Europe.

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Did You Know?

It closely resembles a small wasp rather than a bee, which helps it avoid being recognized as a threat by its hosts.