Short-palped Miner

Andrena brevipalpis · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Andrenidae

Also called: Short-tongued Miner Bee

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Short-palped Miner
Photo: Michelle Orcutt, CC BY

The short-palped miner lives in North America. It gathers pollen and nectar mainly from Rhus (sumac) flowers.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

Feeds almost exclusively on Rhus flowers.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Found across North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 30 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Illinois, New York, Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Nebraska.

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

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

Same family (Andrenidae)

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Sources

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

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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