Two-celled miner
The two-celled miner is a small mining bee that digs its nest in bare ground. It has a fuzzy red chest and a blackish back end with thin white stripes of hair. It loves warm places and the yellow flowers of rapeseed fields.
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Fun facts
It is the only mining bee whose females have just two little cells in their front wings. All the others have three.
It flies only in spring and early summer, from the end of April to the end of June.
It likes warm, low places, usually below 500 metres.
It builds its nest in spots where only a few plants grow.
Most asked questions about Two-celled miner
?Where does the two-celled miner nest?
In the ground, in bare spots with few plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Andrena lagopus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Andrenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Andrenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Andrena lagopus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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