Want to know more about rare ? Found a bumble bee that’s not on here? Take a picture and get it identified at bumblebeeconservation.org. Bee It will be added to on-going research into UK bee populations. identification guide When your wildflowers bloom you should have lots of us coming to visit. We’re not all the same and it’s good to know your guests’ names. So we’ve put together this bee spotter guide to help you identify us. Early Osmia rufa Bombus pratorum

Buff-tailed Bumblebee Common Carder Bumblebee Hairy-footed Flower Bee (female) Tawny Mining Bee (female) Forest Bumblebee Bombus pascuorum plumipes Andrena fulva Bombus sylvestris

Honey Bee (worker) Red Mason Bee Hairy-footed Flower Bee (male) Tawny Mining Bee (male) Great Yellow Bumblebee Apis mellifera Anthophora plumipes Andrena fulva Bombus distinguendus

Early Mining Bee Garden Bumblebee (queen) Willughby’s Leafcutter Bee Red-shanked Carder-bee Bumblebee Andrena haemorrhoa Bombus hortorum Apis mellifera Megachile willughbiella Illustrations by Chris Shields by Illustrations

Blue Mason Bee Communal Mining Bee Ivy Mining Bee Red-tailed Bumblebee Short-haired Bumblebee Osmia caerulescens Andrena carantonica Colletes hederae Bombus Subterraneus

Davies Mining Bee Fabricus’ Nomad Bee White-tailed Bumblebee Brown-banded Carder Bumblebee Shrill Carder Bumblebee

Colletes daviesanus Nomada fabriciana Bombus lucornum Bombus humilis Bombus sylvarum www.foe.co.uk charity. a registered Trust, of the Earth Friends

These bee illustrations are not to scale www.foe.co.uk/bees