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Chocolate Mining Bee

Andrena carantonica

4,456Records since 2000
MayPeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb8
Mar248
Apr1,722
May1,747
Jun331
Jul37
Aug8
Sep21
Oct52
Nov6
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England309
2Kent England113
3Highland Scotland105
4Norfolk England89
5City of Edinburgh Scotland86
6Cambridgeshire England85
7Argyll and Bute Scotland84
8Cumbria England71
9Powys Wales71
10Cornwall England67
11East Riding of Yorkshire England52
12Glasgow City Scotland52
13Isle of Anglesey Wales51
14Oxfordshire England50
15North Yorkshire England49
3,409 England550 Scotland261 Wales149 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,456
Peak month
May
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Andrena carantonica
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Andrena
Name with authority
Andrena carantonica Pérez, 1902
Described
1902
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2329580 · GBIF 1357950