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Patchwork Leaf-cutter Bee

Megachile centuncularis

1,393Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr5
May107
Jun418
Jul562
Aug205
Sep24
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England70
2Norfolk England43
3Kent England33
4Cumbria England33
5North Tyneside England33
6City of Edinburgh Scotland30
7Powys Wales28
8Argyll and Bute Scotland27
9Highland Scotland26
10Cambridgeshire England24
11Glasgow City Scotland24
12Wirral England23
13Rutland England21
14Suffolk England19
15Cornwall England19
1,093 England158 Scotland104 Wales23 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,393
Peak month
July
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Megachile centuncularis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,319
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Name with authority
Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q725259 · GBIF 1335505