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Grey Mining Bee

Andrena cineraria

8,242Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
95Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar292
Apr3,745
May2,564
Jun1,126
Jul95
Aug17
Sep30
Oct64
Nov5
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England497
2Oxfordshire England262
3Gloucestershire England169
4Powys Wales169
5Dorset England152
6Somerset England152
7Northamptonshire England152
8Kent England144
9Devon England143
10Cornwall England133
11Cambridgeshire England128
12Herefordshire, County of England127
13North Yorkshire England100
14Sefton England96
15Lincolnshire England94
7,192 England78 Scotland608 Wales242 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 95 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,242
Peak month
April
Counties with records
95
Scientific name
Andrena cineraria
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,289
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Andrena
Name with authority
Andrena cineraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1472971 · GBIF 1358088