Hairy Yellow-face - Hylaeus hyalinatus

Length 5.5 to 7 mm. Hylaeus hyalinatus is a plasterer bee, and one of several similar species that have an almost completely white face in the male at least.

Where a photograph is surrounded by a red box it means the subject is likely to be this species but has not been definitively identified as such.

Hedgerows and meadows.

May to September.

Takes pollen from various flowers. Plasterer bees smooth the walls of their nest cells with secretions applied with their mouthparts; these secretions dry into a cellophane-like lining.

Widespread and fairly frequent in England.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.