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colletes succinctus
The Colletes is a very smart-looking bee, a little smaller than a honeybee with a rich brown thorax and clean bands across its abdomen. It can surprise people that a ’solitary’ bee can live in huge colonies or ’aggregations’, but the term ’solitary’ refers to the fact that the bees live as individuals and have no workers.
seen at the wild flower meadows of Old Moor nature reserve in the Dearne Valley.
Spotted on Jul 13, 2013
Submitted on Jul 17, 2013
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