Hi Alan. Your animal is Ancistrocerus male. For identification to the species level I must to see the 2nd sternite from the lateral view (bulb towards the 1st...
Hi, Please could anyone help me to id any of my latest wasps? Ive added them to 'noels pics' and they are pictures a1-a4. All found in rural sussex,around...
thanks Stuart ;) a4 is odd looking ...do you think it could be a wasp? the eye/head looks a bit ant-like to my untrained eye,but the rest of it doesnt ... ...
Thank you Libor. I have put another image up at http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/photos/view/37a6?b=2 with a slightly rotated abdomen. But, I doubt...
Just in case your interested...a4 is a wasp in the family Bethylidae. An aculeate wasp that parasitizes a variety of insects. kindly id'd by another...
Hi, I'd be very grateful for any thoughts on this bee, photographed today in London on the bank of a disused railway line - with luck I might get better images...
Hi Colin ... There is a selection of shots of female Andrena cineraria (never heard this particular English name before) ... These are pics of a Nomada bee....
Many thanks Tim, I see what you mean re the mandibles on the male! I'm going to file this one and post on my site as A. praecox now, as I'm pretty sure you...
Hi Stuart Thanks very much for that . BWARS not my strong point I googled Andrena cineraria. Common Name. Grey Mining Bee. Way out on the Nomad Bee which I...
Hi Colin ... Could be on that web site... also "Ashy Mining bee" elsewhere and doubtless others. "Grey Mining bee" wouldn't leave much room for Andrena vaga...
Hi Stuart, They're only names not descriptions. They don't have to be 100% accurate, immediately recognisable or uniquely appropriate. But I agree arbitrary ...
Hi Colin, As an addage to Stuart( Bumblebees with red tails). Bombus pratorum and Bombus monticola have red tails. It is more obvious in monticola where the...
Malcolm ... I agree that they are names... but they can be immensely unhelpful if the English name could apply to a range of species But joe public and his...
Hello Chaps Inventing common names is a regular point of contention in natural history. I recall the distaste, amongst many in the mycological community,...
Hi AgainFolks There is also the issue of Generic categorising Mining Bees , Cuckoo Bees , Mason Bees , Soliry Nomad Bees , Social Bees etc Anyone have a view...
... "Blackbird" could apply to a range of species, not to mention all the things "distinguished" by being prefixed by "Common" or "Field". It doesn't matter. ...
Hello all. I have some observation to your discussion about bumble bee males. Location: south border between Czech Republic and Germany. Biotope: old spruce...
... Perhaps I should confess now: it was me who started that project! I had just started running adult education days on fungi. I was diving in with latin...
Colin ... Well... this is tricky too as, for instance, the mining habit is found in many genera! The Germans and Dutch have systems which deal with names for...
... well....I happen to think that names DO matter - immenseley ... I don't think that either I, or BWARS, NEED an official list, thereby creating a parallel...
Good for you Malcolm: ....and the irony of it all The Grey Mining Bee http://www.britishinsects.bravehost.com/insects/andrena_cineraria.htm l was found around...
Hi Stuart/All I know the BWARS recording scheme does a great job - Do you or the group think it would be a good idea to open a database on the group ?? I put...
Colin ... Well.. the good news is that we have one. What happens to the electronically held data is that it gets sent in from personal databases to Mike...
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