[Pollinator] Chestnut Bee (Andrena rehni) found in Maryland Yesterday on American Chestnut.

[Droege, Sam]

People should look at their local American Chestnut groves.

Yesterday I visited a 15/16ths Am. Chestnut planting. There were mature trees blooming and I collected about 50 or so bee specimens. Among the ones present were about 5-6 A. rehni (males and females). I think it is becoming clearer that this is indeed a Castenae specialist (both American Chestnut and Chinquapin). It is not clear if they use pure Chinese Chestnuts.

So, those of you in the East, take a look at any Chestnut plantings now for these beautiful little bees.


sam


Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things---
     For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow;
          For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
     Landscape plotted and pieced---fold, fallow, and plough;
          And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
     Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
          with swift, slow; sweet, sour, adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                    Praise him.
      -Gerard Manley Hopkins


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