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...
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...
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...
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...
Good morning ,Stuart I saw the card "distribution mondiale de Colletes halophilus" in Apoïdea-Gallica files. And last Sunday I have seen numerous Colletes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
... 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...
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)...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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