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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Large Sallow Mining Bee

Andrena apicata

Near Threatened

About

A rare, early-spring mining bee that specializes on sallow and willow catkins. It has declined significantly across Europe due to loss of wetland habitats.

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Did You Know?

It is so dependent on sallow catkins that the removal of sallow trees from wetlands has caused local extinctions across England.