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Bee Key
All bees are female except 8a which is male. Sizes indciate body length.
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1 Honeybee Apis mellifera (16-20mm) 2 White-tailed bumblembee Bombus lucorum (20-25mm) 3 Tawny mining bee Andrena fulva (11-15mm) 4 Wool carder bee Anthidium manicatum (12-14mm) 5 Red mason bee Osmia rufa (9-14mm) 6 Leaf-cutter bee Megachile centuncularis (9-12mm) 7 Coelioxys inermis (10-14mm) 8 Hairy-footed flower bee Anthophora plumipes (14-17mm) 9 Cuckoo bee Melecta albifrons (13-16mm) 10 Andrena Flavipes (10-13mm) 11 Mining bee Nomada flava (10-12mm) 12 Chelostoma campanularum (5-7mm) 13 Lasioglossum parvulum (6-7mm) 14 Solitary bee Sphecodes ephippius (7-10mm) 15 Solitary bee Colletes fodiens (8-11mm) 16 Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius (20-25mm) 17 Common carder bee Bombus pascuorum (20-25mm)
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8a
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