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Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee

Megachile ligniseca

569Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
49Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar1
Apr0
May17
Jun99
Jul254
Aug124
Sep20
Oct1
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England46
2Norfolk England33
3Cambridgeshire England21
4Kent England18
5Surrey England14
6Oxfordshire England12
7Gloucestershire England12
8Suffolk England10
9Rutland England10
10Sefton England9
11Wirral England9
12Essex England8
13Milton Keynes England7
14Bedford England7
15Devon England5
544 England20 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
569
Peak month
July
Counties with records
49
Scientific name
Megachile ligniseca
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
558
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Megachile
Name with authority
Megachile ligniseca (Kirby, 1802)
Described
1802
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5440764 · GBIF 1335802