Hairy-footed flower bee
The hairy-footed flower bee is a round, furry bee that is one of the first to buzz around in spring. The girls are black, while the boys are gingery brown or grey. The boys have long hairy tufts on their middle legs, which gave the bee its name.
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Fun facts
You can see it from March to June, when lots of other bees are still asleep.
It does not live in a big hive. Each mother bee makes her own nest.
The mother digs little rooms in clay banks or old mud walls.
She fills each room with pollen and nectar and lays one egg on top.
Nobody knows exactly what the boys use their hairy foot tufts for.
Most asked questions about Hairy-footed flower bee
?Is it a bumblebee?
No. It looks furry like a bumblebee, but it is a different bee that lives alone, not in a big nest.
?When can you see the hairy-footed flower bee?
In spring, from about March to June.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthophora plumipes
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthophora plumipes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by pjt56. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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