Hullo, I’m back. Here’s my friend, one of the thousands of ground-nesting #Andrena#bees who are out around my neighborhood this time of year. They are the sweetest, gentlest little bees. Three weeks from now they’ll be gone.
Turns out I unwittingly reported, one year ago almost to the day, the only observation in the UK, and one of the 4 observations in the whole of Europe, the other 3 being in Belarus. Thanks to the anonymous iNaturalist identifier for the ID – I had only narrowed it down to subgenus Microandrena.