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Two-coloured Mason Bee

Osmia bicolor

1,599Records since 2000
MayPeak month
33Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar47
Apr438
May839
Jun227
Jul29
Aug1
Sep3
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England232
2Oxfordshire England96
3Gloucestershire England76
4Cambridgeshire England61
5Kent England43
6Dorset England30
7Swansea Wales25
8Suffolk England24
9Surrey England18
10Rutland England18
11Somerset England16
12Worcestershire England11
13Northamptonshire England8
14West Berkshire England8
15Bedford England8
1,568 England29 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 33 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,599
Peak month
May
Counties with records
33
Scientific name
Osmia bicolor
Also known as
Two Coloured Mason Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,565
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Osmia
Name with authority
Osmia bicolor (Schrank, 1781)
Described
1781
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2938169 · GBIF 5039228