A new visitor, in house this time. The Tawny mining bee (Andrena fulva) a common bee from the Mining bees (Andrena) family ^{[1, 2, 3]}.

THe bee was starved, sitting on the bathroom floor and was very sluggish. I fed it some honey to see if it would recover and when it did I releashed it into the garden again.

It is a very beautifull bee with nice deep and dark colors.

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Literature

¹ Nederlands Soortenregister

² Peeters, T.M.J., H. Nieuwenhuijsen, J. Smit, F. van der Meer, I.P. Raemakers, W.R.B. Heitmans, C. van Achterberg, M. Kwak, A.J. Loonstra, J. de Rond, M. Roos & M. Reemer, 2012. De Nederlands bijen (Hymennoptera: Apidae s.l.). - Natuur van Nederland 11, Naturalis Biodiversity Center & European Invertebrate Survey - Nederland, Leiden.