I was working in a garden Thursday afternoon planting some shrubs. Got a hole dug and started noticing these rich reddy brown blobs starting to move about.
They were Tawny Mining Bees Andrena fulva and there was muggins digging a load up. They are a solitary bee which hopefully with the weather we are having will survive having come out of hibernation a bit sooner perhaps than they would have liked. I had no idea that last year some females had all found that bit of garden and then used it for their brood tunnels. I was finding then up to 150mm deep in little chambers.
Thinking back afterwards about May/June I had seen a very tame female blackbird sitting in that area catching and eating some insects but did not go too close to her.
Heres hoping some survive they are lovely little bees and should be about soon.
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