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...
Hi everyone Massive new aggregation of C. hederae found in the village of Tisbury (ST947296) on 6 Oct. Thousands of nests and females provisioning them with...
Hi Stuart, I just got a google alert about this colony - it hit the local newspaper (although the species was not named). I wondered if you had been out to see...
Nigel I saw the article in the Salisbury Journal on Friday last... noted the street name and the names of the citizens who reported the existence of the bees...
Hi Folks Lots of Colletes hederae action on the soft cliffs at Prawle Point (S Devon) last wednesday. How far west has this beast been reported? cheers Andrew...
I was in Brittany a few weeks ago and there were huge numbers of C.hederae on the north coast foraging from ivy. Andy Jukes Principal Ecologist 01889...
Hi Andy Could you send me the details of this (and any other records you might have)? First recorded at Prawle in 2001 (just a few). New records this year from...
Hi Andy I would LOVE to know full details of this. We are hoping to do some genetic analysis of populations on either side of the Channel to try to establish...
I just found a B. lucorum/cryptarum queen in a hibernation site under loose mossy bark on a dead felled conifer trunk in NH27. The bee stirred slightly and...
I was watching Colletes hederae yesterday on ivy flowers at one of its well-known Hastings locations and I wondered how such a distinctive bee remained...
Dear Patrick ... It is quite strange. Perhaps its distribution meant that it escaped the attention of the collectores - ie Croatia, Slovenia, Northern Italy...
Dear Patrick, Colletes hederae is sporadically distributed throughout much of western Europe (as far east as at least Greece) and is common in parts of France...
Hi all, Colletes hederae was mentioned very briefly in the Guardian (yesterday 16/10/2006) as the "Ivy bee" complete with picture. cheers Darrel (in Bath)...
Hello, I am looking for the work: Richard O.W. , 1937.-A study of the British species of Epeolus Latr. and their races, with a key to the species of Colletes...
François, Try Berit Pedersen, the librarian at the Royal Entomological Society in London. I am sure they will have the paper there and they should be able to...
Dear BWARS members I am looking for an entomologist, with experience of working with bees and butterflies, to lead a one week workshop, in FRENCH, in Congo...
Dear Matt, Thank you for your answer, I don't speak English fluently but I can read and write. I am really interested by your offer. My name is François...
Hi I've had a good look at the pic and I am afraid to say that it isn't an aculeate wasp. It is a wasp.. but an Ichneumonid (Hymenoptera: Parasitica). It looks...
Hi all, can anyone id the following bee please: http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/insects-invertebrates/6292-hamishs-bee-id.html Many thanks in advance,...
It looks like a female Andrena cineraria to me. Melecta albifrons has quite distinctive white spots on the sides of the abdomen. Cheers Andy Jukes Principal...
Its a female Andrena cineraria. I have a decent sized nesting aggregation in my Salisbury garden S __________________________________________________ Do You...
Dear Alan, The bee is clearly a female Andrena cineraria, one of the few UK Andrena which can be identified from a photograph! George Else ... From:...
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