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5	I have keyed out a solitary bee using the AIDGAP key and have been told that my ID is wrong but I cannot see why. I have all of the steps written down and...	xmlxsl1	Nov 19, 2004 3:58 pm
6	Hello, Not the time of year for a solitary bee; this one was back in October: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/SolitaryBee.html Lasioglossum sp. Cheers Andy Horton ...	glaucus25	Dec 9, 2004 4:00 pm
7	Lasioglossum xanthopus...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Dec 9, 2004 9:58 pm
8	Hi everyone. Good to have the BWARS discussion forum back. Can anyone suggest a likely ID for a very attractive bee I managed to photograph in Southern France...	Nigel Jones conopid	Dec 10, 2004 7:44 pm
9	Hope this link works http://www.insectpix.net/French%20bee.htm...	Nigel Jones conopid	Dec 10, 2004 7:50 pm
10	Nigel, Have you tried checking on Pierre Rasmont's excellent website? I had a scan through the Anthophorini and there are five species of Amegilla listed....	ANDREW GRACE andrew688595	Dec 11, 2004 5:31 pm
11	Thanks Andrew, I had a look at Pierre Rasmont's web pages - they are very good. I agree with you that my photo certainly looks very much like Amegilla...	Nigel Jones conopid	Dec 11, 2004 5:55 pm
12	Shrewsbury garden December 11: We have had a few mild frosts in Shrewsbury in the last month, so I was very surprised to see a Bombus terrestris/lucorum worker...	Nigel Jones conopid	Dec 11, 2004 6:35 pm
13	Nigel, your photograph shows a distinctive feature which seperates Amegilla form Anthophora - the absence of an arolia. By great fortune there is a further...	ANDREW GRACE andrew688595	Dec 11, 2004 10:32 pm
14	Andrew, I never think to look in Michener! Yes you are right, Amegilla quadrifasciata certainly looks like a very likely ID for my photo. It's a beautiful...	Nigel Jones conopid	Dec 12, 2004 6:09 pm
15	Dear BWARS Moderator, Well, it took absolutely for ever to join up with this new Yahoo forum but I eventually made it. It's nice to be back - I think...	Roy Frankum maggiefrankum	Dec 13, 2004 10:42 pm
16	Hello, Adur Bumblebee page, not comprehensive: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/BBees.html Please point out any errors. I am not an insect expert. The following one...	British Marine Life S... glaucus25	Dec 14, 2004 12:09 pm
17	Bombus (Psithyrus) vestalis male British Marine Life Study Society <Glaucus@...> wrote:Hello, The following one has not got a label: ...	Matt Smith matsmith60	Dec 15, 2004 2:37 pm
18	Dear Maggie, I thought that I had replied to this the other day - seemingly not. This yahoo group was/is a stopgap measure to get the forum up and running...	Stuart Hine stuart_hine	Dec 16, 2004 6:59 pm
19	... Hi Richard This question seems to have been doing the rounds for a while! I guess its my turn to have a stab at it. ... What did YOU think the specimen...	Stuart Roberts eucera	Dec 18, 2004 10:00 am
20	I am a beginer in feral apo�dea,(I am beekeeper),is it possible to had help to determine anthophora sp. please?...	dittlof	Dec 20, 2004 5:04 am
21	An opportunity has arisen for anyone with a working knowledge of bee taxonomy to join Professor Theodora Petanidou's team in Mytilene (Lesvos) for 1-5 months....	Stuart Roberts eucera	Dec 21, 2004 1:00 pm
22	Hi everyone - Christmas almost here... and the deadline for suggestions of bees/wasps/ants that should be added.. subtracted etc. from the BAP lists (due for...	Stuart Roberts eucera	Dec 23, 2004 5:46 pm
23	Hi... yes...it is possible.... but, regretfully, there are no competent bee taxonomists in France at all (a sad decline since the great days of Perez and...	Stuart Roberts eucera	Dec 23, 2004 6:10 pm
24	Stuart, Really happy with your answer -pigeon carrier has good wings- . Prof. Else has accepted to examine my samples.Thank you. Ferton between Perez and...	dittlof	Dec 25, 2004 8:11 am
25	I spotted a bee this morning (10th January), it landed on our office window. Unfortunately I only saw it from underneath, It looked like a honey bee, but with...	Elizabeth Peat lizzy_peat	Jan 10, 2005 4:16 pm
26	Hi Lizzie It isn't that unusual to see Honey-bees out foraging in January, providing the weather is warm enough. I used to see lots visiting flowering Mahonia...	Stuart Roberts eucera	Jan 10, 2005 6:50 pm
27	I saw three bumblebees today, ( Friday 14 Jan) simultaneously foraging on a Mahonia about 500 metres from my home in South London. Saw two yesterday, foraging...	Marc Carlton penge12000	Jan 14, 2005 11:12 pm
28	Dear Mr Carlton, Thank you for your message and the information on winter bumblebee activity. Observations on winter flying and foraging activity of bumblebees...	George Else george_else	Jan 17, 2005 9:05 am
29	I was in Malvern, Worcestershire on Sunday January 16. I saw three worker B/lucorum/terrestris collecting pollen and feeding from winter flowering jasmine. In...	Nigel Jones conopid	Jan 17, 2005 10:26 am
30	I have caught 2 species of Colletes on the same ivy on sept 03: - one "large yellow" with galea smooth -other"smaller grey" with galea dull broader The first...	dittlo fran�ois fdttl	Jan 17, 2005 6:40 pm
31	Dear Mr Dittlo, Thank you for your message. The bees on your ivy are probably Colletes hederae but might be another species. If you would like them to be...	George Else george_else	Jan 18, 2005 8:23 am
32	... Google seem to be in the process of setting something similar up too. http://groups-beta.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&ie=UTF-8 HTH Malcolm...	Storey, M.W. bioimages2000	Jan 18, 2005 1:37 pm
33	The Google groups are probably now the best around in my opinion. They are simple and, rather usefully, will store full-sized attachments with messages (though...	Mike Lush stubbornlyin...	Jan 18, 2005 6:32 pm
34	If there are any BWARS members who would like a change of scenery for a week or two in the South of France, (Easyjet do cheap flights to the nearest airport:...	Stuart Roberts eucera	Jan 28, 2005 12:48 pm

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