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Widespread and frequent or locally common in the southern half of the UK, thinning out further north. Habitat includes: quarries, coast (sand dunes, shingle, bases of cliffs), hedgerows, meadows, gardens, parks, cemeteries / churchyards, allotments etc. Flight period: May to September. Life story: Nests in holes found in masonry, rocks, sandbanks, dead stems, wood etc. Females take pollen from various flowers as food for its young and plasters / seals the walls of its nest and tunnel entrance with secretions applied with their mouth parts which then dries and becomes like cellophane. Flowers visited: White Bryony, Mock-orange, Biting Stonecrop, English Stonecrop, Bramble, Silverweed, Rose, Spurges, Bloody Crane’s-bill, Ground-elder, Water Drop-wort, Wild Parsnip, Hogweed, Wild Carrot, Field Bindweed, Dodder, Thyme, Speedwell, Hebe, Sheep’s-bit Scabious, Creeping Thistle, Greater Knapweed, Goldenrod, Mayweed, Autumn Squill, Allium.

Workings out:

• Shingle Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus annularis) xx x
• Short-horned Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus brevicornis) // x
• Common Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus communis) x/ x
• White-jawed Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus confusus) x/ //
• Spined Hylaeus (Hylaeus cornutus) x/ x
• Chalk Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus dilatatus) x/ //
• Hairy Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus hyalinatus) // /-
• White-lipped Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus incongruus) xx x
• Reed Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus pectoralis) xx x
• Little Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus pictipes) x/ x
• Onion Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus punctulatissimus) xx x

• Mignonette Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus signatus) x/ /

• Hairy Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus hyalinatus) ///

• Short-horned Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus brevicornis) -/