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Silvery Leaf-cutter Bee

Megachile leachella

499Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May20
Jun156
Jul255
Aug55
Sep3
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Swansea Wales70
2Norfolk England49
3Cornwall England46
4Sefton England28
5Cambridgeshire England25
6Devon England25
7Suffolk England24
8Kent England23
9Pembrokeshire Wales22
10Essex England21
11Gwynedd Wales18
12Ceredigion Wales18
13Dorset England10
14Portsmouth England9
15Medway England8
329 England167 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
499
Peak month
July
Counties with records
27
Scientific name
Megachile leachella
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
528
Most recorded in
Swansea
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Name with authority
Megachile leachella Curtis, 1828
Described
1828
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2282488 · GBIF 1336138