Buffish Mining Bee

Andrena nigroaenea · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Andrenidae

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Buffish Mining Bee
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The buffish mining bee, Andrena nigroaenea, is a species of mining bee. It is native to the Palearctic region.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Andrena nigroaenea is known as the buffish mining bee.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It occurs naturally across the Palearctic area.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Pennsylvania.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Same family (Andrenidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrena_nigroaenea

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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