... Thanks Stuart, ... I will try though I have been lucky so far with cooperative subjects, I have found that getting close to Andrena sp. is either lucky or ...
Hi Matt, thanks for this! It certainly doesn't help my amateur eye when they get tatty! i'll try and bear that in mind in future. Much appreciated, Richard ......
Arrived home from work late this afternoon [4.45pm] to a lot of bee activity on my scree bed in the front garden. It appeared to be two species involved; a...
Steve, ... records - are these all from gardens situated in the countryside A. plumipes is frequent in my parents' garden near Uxbridge, West London, so...
Hi Steve ... This looks like it could be a male of Andrena fulva - a common mining bee in southern England and out in good numbers at the moment Cheers, Stuart...
Thanks for your quick response Stuart. There were many of these bees appearing to come from a nest congregation around the small buttress roots of a field...
Thanks Martin - there's hope yet then! Cheers, Steve [VC7/8] http://www.wiltshiredragonflies.org.uk/ This mail is a natural product. The slight variation in...
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Thanks Stuart, B. major in garden again today; loads of Andrenas flying about but appeared unconcerned by its presence - no 'mobbing' type behaviour. Do this...
Hi All I've downloade two images of what I think are a type of Coletes Bees. They were found at Meols Common sand dunes Cheshire today April 2nd 07. I would...
Mornin' all, These fellas have been visiting an evergreen shrub in my Nottingham garden for the past few days. I realise that I might not be able to make an...
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Hi tim & Stuart Thank you both for your prompt replies. This has enabled me to have a look at an image of Andrena nigroaenea on the flicker web site.I agree ...
Following on from a recent discussion about solitary bee parasitoids, I visited a site near Pewsey yesterday [on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain] where I...
I have been looking out for them on a local nature reserve called Carr's Woodland in Bath where they have previously been recorded, however I have yet to find...
Hi Steve (and fellow Bombylius watchers), I am sure that the organiser of the Larger Brachycera Recording Scheme would welcome the records. His name is Simon...
The usual people I suspect would like to know. LRC, national recording scheme and lead partner (as its a UKBAP species...i think it still is??). Don't know the...
Hi all, Don't know much about the machanics of the 'relationship' between them (who does!), but I recently spotted about a dozen Bombylius major in a small...
Took a walk through Carr's Woodland LNR in Bath this afternoon - there were approximately 30-40 solitary bees on some Ivy growing on a barbed wire fence. From...
Hi Folks Can any one confirm this littel chap looks like an Andrena fulva ?????? http://www.britishinsects.bravehost.com/insects/beered.html Many thanks in...
... From: Mike Williams To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:30 AM Subject: [bwars] Re: Bombylius discolor ... I've seen a Bombylius in...
Today at Carr's Woodland in Bath were large numbers of what I presume to be Andrena cineraria, several of which were mating - does anyone know if they build...
