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Andrena vaga, the grey-backed mining bee, is a European species that strictly collects pollen from willow trees and forms massive nesting aggregations in open sandy soils.
Andrena clarkella is an early-spring mining bee distributed throughout the northern hemisphere that acts as a specialized pollinator, foraging almost exclusively on willow blossoms.
Colletes cunicularius is a European plasterer bee described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761, notable for forming massive, dense nesting aggregations in coastal sand dunes each spring.
A perennial woody bracket fungus parasitic on willows and other hardwoods, producing hoof-shaped conks historically used as tinder and in traditional folk medicine.
The Willow Leaf Beetle is a widely distributed chrysomelid insect, notable for its metallic blue or green coloring and its habit of skeletonizing the leaves of various willow species.
