{"id":2380,"date":"2019-04-09T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:36:33","slug":"clip-of-the-week-female-pantaloon-bee-returning-to-burrow-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/clip-of-the-week-female-pantaloon-bee-returning-to-burrow-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip of the week &#8211; female pantaloon bee returning to burrow, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/329328948?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hairy-legged mining bee or pantaloon bee takes its name from the golden brush-like hairs on the hind legs of the female, which serve to collect pollen from flowers such as hawkweed and dandelion. This species is the only one in the genus to occur in Britain. Take a look at more images of this species below, including the males which do not share the hairy legs of the females. We have also created a <a href=\"\/-video\/video-subjects\/bees.html\">new gallery showing the best of our bee video<\/a>, including honeybees, bumble bees, mining bees and various other species.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-2380 style-standard'><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Hairy-legged mining bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) female collecting pollen from Smooth hawksbeard (Crepis capillaris) flowers. Surrey, England, UK, July.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594600-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Hairy-legged mining bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) female collecting pollen from Smooth hawksbeard (Crepis capillaris) flowers. Surrey, England, UK, July.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Hairy legged mining bee {Dasypoda hirtipes} male on thistle flower. UK.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-320x212.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01133079-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Hairy legged mining bee {Dasypoda hirtipes} male on thistle flower. UK.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594624-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Hairy-legged mining bee(Dasypoda hirtipes) outside her burrow. Surrey, England, UK, July.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594624-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594624-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594624-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/01594624-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Hairy-legged mining bee(Dasypoda hirtipes) outside her burrow. Surrey, England, UK, July.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The hairy-legged mining bee or pantaloon bee takes its name from the golden brush-like hairs on the hind legs of the female, which serve to collect pollen from flowers such as hawkweed and dandelion. This species is the only one in the genus to occur in Britain. Take a look at more images of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/clip-of-the-week-female-pantaloon-bee-returning-to-burrow-uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}