Hey, not many of us here. I’m a little nervous to be representing the largest group of bees in this family. But anyways we, the 1,300 species of Andrena, are all solitary and ground nesting bees which is why we are commonly called “mining bees”.

One fun fact is that, unlike a lot of other bees, we have a few species that feed at dusk or in the early evening. You can tell us apart by our unmistakable vertical eyebrows.