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Buffish Mining Bee

Andrena nigroaenea

3,293Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
97Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb25
Mar423
Apr1,348
May813
Jun405
Jul44
Aug7
Sep3
Oct2
Nov2
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England223
2Norfolk England177
3Kent England171
4Cornwall England115
5Cambridgeshire England101
6North Lincolnshire England71
7Lincolnshire England64
8Gwynedd Wales57
9Suffolk England53
10Pembrokeshire Wales53
11Oxfordshire England49
12East Riding of Yorkshire England48
13Rutland England44
14Nottinghamshire England42
15North Yorkshire England40
2,899 England93 Scotland266 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 97 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,293
Peak month
April
Counties with records
97
Scientific name
Andrena nigroaenea
Also known as
a bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,121
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Andrena
Name with authority
Andrena nigroaenea (Kirby, 1802)
Described
1802
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 1357665