Osmia aurulenta (f)

This gold-fringed mason bee was feeding on birds-foot trefoil flowers on the clifftop at Penally.

 

This is a new bee for me so the ID was based on field guide pictures and therefore subject to change. Initially identified as a hairy-saddled colletes, but a comment in iRecord on another shot led me to re-evaluate this shot and I now have greater confidence in this ID.

Done