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Willughby's Leaf-cutter Bee

Megachile willughbiella

1,040Records since 2000
JunePeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr4
May72
Jun393
Jul357
Aug101
Sep8
Oct0
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England81
2Surrey England41
3Powys Wales35
4City of Edinburgh Scotland32
5Cambridgeshire England28
6Gwynedd Wales26
7Isle of Anglesey Wales26
8Highland Scotland24
9Norfolk England17
10Kent England16
11Cumbria England16
12Carmarthenshire Wales14
13Stirling Scotland14
14Wirral England14
15Swansea Wales13
752 England109 Scotland163 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 80 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,040
Peak month
June
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Megachile willughbiella
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
965
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Name with authority
Megachile willughbiella (Kirby, 1802)
Described
1802
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2497092 · GBIF 1335556