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Field Digger Wasp

Mellinus arvensis

1,763Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr1
May9
Jun34
Jul362
Aug687
Sep433
Oct95
Nov5
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Riding of Yorkshire England158
2Worcestershire England121
3Norfolk England87
4Isle of Anglesey Wales86
5Swansea Wales66
6Highland Scotland61
7Sefton England51
8Gwynedd Wales43
9Cornwall England37
10Carmarthenshire Wales34
11East Lothian Scotland30
12Cheshire East England29
13Oxfordshire England25
14North Yorkshire England24
15Pembrokeshire Wales24
1,165 England183 Scotland345 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,763
Peak month
August
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Mellinus arvensis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,543
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Crabronidae
Genus
Mellinus
Name with authority
Mellinus arvensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q6813127 · GBIF 4494417