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Wool-carder Bee

Anthidium manicatum

2,697Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr5
May138
Jun1,084
Jul1,167
Aug238
Sep24
Oct1
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England106
2Kent England106
3Essex England97
4City of Edinburgh Scotland95
5Norfolk England85
6Devon England61
7Suffolk England52
8Surrey England50
9Cumbria England49
10Worcestershire England44
11Isle of Anglesey Wales42
12North Yorkshire England41
13Sefton England38
14Brighton and Hove England37
15Cornwall England35
2,356 England147 Scotland191 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,697
Peak month
July
Counties with records
83
Scientific name
Anthidium manicatum
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,425
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Anthidium
Name with authority
Anthidium manicatum (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 Q1413325 · GBIF 1334821