They are present in most of Europe, the Near East and North Africa and can be found from April through July.

A. agilissima is a member of the order Hymenoptera, which includes wasps, bees, and ants.

There is a heightened amount of activity on foraging the wild radish flowers from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.

They have a shiny black body, with tufts of white velvety hairs on the facial fovea, on either side of the thorax, on the last abdominal tergites and the femora of the third pair of legs.

[1] Andrena agilissima is a southern and central European species of mining bee, recognizable by its bluish color, which is found from the Netherlands and Poland in the north south through the islands of the Mediterranean to North Africa, where it is widespread, and as far east as former Czechoslovakia, it is absent from Great Britain but does occur on the Channel Islands.

A. agilissima needs a vertical surface to nest on and it typically feeds on flowers of plants in the mustard family for food.

In Southern Germany, it collects its pollen from the wild mustard plant (Sinapis arvensis).

It is now rare to find large nest aggregations, which also impacts its cuckoo bee Nomada metalthoracica.

[6] There is a huge aggregation of this bee in Tuscany, Italy on an earth wall 2.5 m high and 6 m wide.

[7]At the beginning of the spring season, the females start digging through their underground cells to collect pollen and nectar.

Nectar load is increased in the afternoon but the amount of pollen per day does not change significantly.

[8] Females typically collect pollen and nectar from the flowers Raphanus raphanistrum and Sinapis arvensis.

It is a kleptoparasite, meaning that it steals food and lays its eggs in cells of A. agilissima and is active all day around the nesting sites.

If a bee notices that it is being followed, it moves in large zigzags to trick the fly away from its nest.