Andrena cineraria

The Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) is easily recognised with its overall grey and black colouration. Females are black with two broad ashy/grey band of hair across the thorax. Males have grey hairs on the thorax and face (like a dense white moustache) and entirely black legs. They are on the wing from April through to early June and are common through much of England and Wales, but largely absent from East Anglia.