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Fork Tailed Flower Bee

Anthophora furcata

1,111Records since 2000
JunePeak month
81Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar2
Apr3
May62
Jun456
Jul404
Aug109
Sep9
Oct2
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England63
2City of Edinburgh Scotland41
3Cumbria England40
4Norfolk England37
5Isle of Anglesey Wales35
6Kingston upon Hull, City of England34
7Kent England27
8Powys Wales21
9Suffolk England20
10Cambridgeshire England16
11Fife Scotland15
12Oxfordshire England14
13Devon England12
14Gwynedd Wales12
15Ceredigion Wales12
865 England110 Scotland133 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,111
Peak month
June
Counties with records
81
Scientific name
Anthophora furcata
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
997
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Anthophora
Name with authority
Anthophora furcata (Panzer, 1798)
Described
1798
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q310314 · GBIF 1344341