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Cuckoo Bee / Rote Wespenbiene

Nomada armata

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Description:

Flight period: late June to early August. It is a cleptoparasite of the mining bee Andrena hattorfiana [ http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/27457027 ]. Females of this Nomada have been observed flying around the nesting burrows of the host bee.

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Nomada armata Herrich-Schäffer, 1839 | BWARS

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