Hello Maggie, Many thanks for the information. Yes they are pretty amazing. I am now looking out for them around my area and although I don't attempt to rear...
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James Hill
craysman76
Sep 1, 2006 9:53 pm
Hello Maggie, I too like Gordon have just started to become interested in Galls and their causative agent, whether wasp or other insect, fungus etc. I seem to...
1391
Scotty Dodd
jaapiella
Sep 2, 2006 12:06 am
Hello Maggie Interested to read that you have a boom year for A. quercuscalicis. In V17, Guildford area, we had a boom year 2 years ago. Last year brought up...
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Nigel Jones
conopid
Sep 4, 2006 8:02 am
Slightly off Aculeate topic, but I hope of some interest to BWARS. I swept a curious looking Apocritan yesterday. It has just one visible tergite. I scanned...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Sep 4, 2006 2:22 pm
Hi Nigel, Some Braconids have a "carapace"; of fused tergites like that. Then again, other superfamilies may do too. HTH Malcolm...
1394
fdttl
Sep 5, 2006 2:35 am
Good morning ,Stuart I saw the card "distribution mondiale de Colletes halophilus" in Apoïdea-Gallica files. And last Sunday I have seen numerous Colletes...
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Patrick Roper
cynthiaroper
Sep 5, 2006 11:08 am
This morning I noticed a black aculeate about the size and shape of one of the smaller Lasioglossum bees, running fussily about around a colony of aphids on a...
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Patrick Roper
cynthiaroper
Sep 6, 2006 2:43 pm
I have uploaded a small picture of a solitary wasp with a captured fly on my Patrick Roper's album in the photo gallery. I would be grateful if anyone can...
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Murdo Macdonald
eristalinus
Sep 7, 2006 3:32 am
I came upon a B. sylvestris female digging in to a SE-facing bank today in NH56. Two pictures are in MAM pics. Murdo...
1398
maggiefrankum
Sep 8, 2006 10:31 pm
Hi Murdo, An interesting picture. I get B. sylvestris in my garden but I've never had the opportunity to see this activity by one of the females. How long...
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Murdo Macdonald
eristalinus
Sep 9, 2006 7:04 am
I don't know how long, Maggie, as I had to dash to collect a daughter + 'cello! It was a very slow business, though. The movements were hardly frenetic. At...
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Les
l_hebdon
Sep 9, 2006 10:06 am
Hi Murdo It was interesting to see that the B.sylvestris in your picture was digging in on a SE facing bank. I have been able to find very little information...
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Murdo Macdonald
eristalinus
Sep 9, 2006 4:47 pm
The lack of information on hibernation sites was one of the reasons I posted this note, Les. And the SE aspect surprised me too in view of the received ...
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maggiefrankum
Sep 10, 2006 7:50 am
Error! The i/d of the bumble that I saw digging her tunnel was a B. terrestris NOT a B. lap. The site was in the soft black earth at the edge of the main ride...
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gordon1127
Sep 10, 2006 6:33 pm
I have uploaded four pictures into Gordon's album. These are of a bee I was watching today 10/09/06 in South East England. It appeared to be laying eggs in...
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mjcoon@...
mjcoon_uk
Sep 11, 2006 7:28 am
... Years ago I watched a bumblebee digging a nest in an old rotting fallen tree stump. Its excavations resulted in a heap of sawdust around the hole. Then the...
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jaapiella
Sep 13, 2006 8:10 pm
Hello all I am looking for members information on Neuroterus quercusbaccarum in Surrey. This is a Hymenoptera gall-causing wasp on Oak (Q.robur or petraea)...
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maggiefrankum
Sep 13, 2006 11:13 pm
Hi Scotty, It will be interesting to hear if anyone finds common spangles anywhere this autumn, because the spring sexual generation of Neuroterus...
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Stuart
cipeen
Sep 14, 2006 7:42 am
I took this photograph last night (13th) of a small ichneumonid laying directly into the larva of the Lesser Willow Sawfly - Nematus pavidus. The Sawfly larva...
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Scotty Dodd
jaapiella
Sep 14, 2006 6:36 pm
Thanks Maggie I noted this as well, however I only had time to search my local area due to a busy couple of months. Any suggestions as to why. Weather?...
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sfgfarmer
Sep 18, 2006 7:22 pm
Hello I have just seen a queen Bombus terrestris loaded with pollen apparently preparing for autumn nest building. She was foraging on flowers of...
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chasmacey
Sep 22, 2006 10:58 am
Hi All, I have recently purchased the FSC key to genera of the British Aculeates and thought I would have a go at some of my un-identified photos. I have...
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Nicolas J. Vereecken
nicovereecken
Sep 24, 2006 8:14 pm
Hi all, I have just inspected my Osmia rufa nests in order to check out the development stage of the bees in the tubes (I bought an artificial nest from the...
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Andrew Whitehouse
whitehouse_a...
Sep 28, 2006 11:19 pm
Dear All As part of Buglife's Soft Cliff Invertebrates project I am looking for data on the following species, if anybody has any records please could you...
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Stuart Roberts
eucera
Oct 2, 2006 5:48 pm
Nigel Jones has posted some pics from the BWARS AGM weekend. The meeting was well attended with a wide range of hymenopterists present, including 1 Dutch, 1...
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Albert de Wilde
wilde_albert
Oct 3, 2006 8:09 pm
On the 5th of September 2006 I made this photo of a Cerceris in the Kaloot dunes (Borssele, Netherlands). I thought it was a C. rybyensis, but I doubted. I...
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Albert de Wilde
wilde_albert
Oct 3, 2006 8:22 pm
... Hi Gordon, Why do you think it is a bee? It looks more like a wasp to me. It doesn't seem to be hairy. Some bee species (parasitic) are the same but they...
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Albert de Wilde
wilde_albert
Oct 3, 2006 9:21 pm
On the 4th of August 2006 I made these photos of a Cerceris in my garden (Koudekerke, Walcheren, Netherlands). I was told it could be a C. quadricincta, but I...
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GORDON
gordon1127
Oct 4, 2006 7:56 am
Hello Albert, Well that caught me by surprise. A sad lack of knowledge is the reason but I am always willing to learn so I will go back to the books. Many...
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hypsarion
Oct 8, 2006 2:12 pm
October 7th after a rainy night I was delighted to see how robust Colletes hederae are. By 8 am there were females with almost full pollen loads at ivy here in...
