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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Lythrum Bee

Melitta nigricans

Near Threatened

About

A specialist bee that collects pollen from purple loosestrife along rivers and wetland margins. It is a ground-nesting species found in damp habitats.

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Did You Know?

It times its emergence precisely to the flowering of purple loosestrife in July, and in years of drought it may fail to reproduce entirely.