As requested: Solitary Bees

My first posting on request (from @brizhorticulture), who would have thought it would come to this: two of the solitary bees that can be found in The Netherlands, both mining bees:

Gray-backed mining-bee (Andrena vaga), grijze zandbij in Dutch:

Hairy legged mining bee (Dasypoda hirtipes), pluimvoetbij in Dutch:

I have some more photos of unusual bee species, but this will have to do for now.

Thanks for watching!

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