Northern Colletes

Colletes floralis

The northern colletes is a species of bee the family Colletidae. Northern colletes are solitary bees, though females may nest in what are termed aggregations – sites where the bees nest close together, but do not form colonies as social bees do. They nest underground in soft soil, digging burrows up to 20 times their body length. It is often to be found nesting in coastal sand dunes and, on Hebridean islands, machair.

Scientific name

Colletes floralis

Family

Colletidae