Narrow-legged Miner Bee

Andrena angustitarsata · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Andrenidae

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Narrow-legged Miner Bee
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It is found across North America and prefers pollen from Apiaceae flowers.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The narrow-legged miner bee (Andrena angustitarsata) belongs to the miner bee family Andrenidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

It gathers pollen from many flowers but prefers those in the carrot family (Apiaceae).

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 12 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona.

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

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States; 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_angustitarsata

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 2026-10-23.

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