Many thanks, Alan. That looks a good ID from Google images. Murdo The **BRAND NEW 2007 supplement** to the Highland Bumblebee atlas is now available for free...
For the past year or so I have been accumulating data for Scottish aculeates. The result is now available at www.hbrg.org.uk/SAL, where you can download...
Hi Murdo! Let me inform you about one Vespid mistake in your Scottish checklist. Polistes gallicus is incorrect name based on misidentification of Linnaeus'...
Thank you Libor - that will be the first change for v.1.0.3! M. The **BRAND NEW 2007 supplement** to the Highland Bumblebee atlas is now available for free...
Thanks for the speedy reply Charles As a amateur I did not recognise it as a Hoverfly or I would have asked a hoverfly forum, lucky for me you know your...
Hi All, Last year, I started photographing wasps and bees, mainly in Holland. I now have collected the main results in a web page, www.corzonneveld.nl . Please...
Hi Marc went to Hayle (Cornwall) again this afternoon and Bombus terrestris queens and white-tailed two-banded workers still gathering pollen from Mahonia, am...
Hi As ant record coordinator I am sometimes sent records with site names but no grid references. For mainland UK I can usually find the site on an ordinance...
Hi Mike You are not alone it's just as annoying when you live in the Channel Islands, as a beginner just starting out in recording it's a nightmare. In the end...
Hello Mike, you can't use OSGB references for Channel Islands (the refs are negative down there). You will have to use lat and lon, which you can get from...
Hi Mike Channel Islands... Ho hum!! I use 2 methods for tracking down CI Grid refs: 1) Google Earth. All Channel Island grid refs are UTM references usually...
As usual I'm arriving late for the party! Although clearly a queen, I don't think this is Camponotus - to me it looks very different from herculeanus and...
I agree with Andrew that it does not look much like a Camponotus queen and is more likely to be a Lasius queen, but umbratus seems unlikely. I suspect it is a...
I'm starting to think that trying to accurately identify ants from photos is just too controversial. I'm afraid I just cannot get convinced from photographs,...
Hi, Today I've difficulties to understand wich genus, family and sort to recognize. Under wasps there are two groups of digger wasps and in different countries...
Hello all, I have posted a photo in Tony's pics and I'm not sure whether it is some sort of Andrena species. I wonder if anyone could help me with this one...
Hello Tony I think your bee looks very similar to the leaf-cutter bees that were making nests in our garden last summer. (Don't know which Megachile species...
Hi, Yes that's definitely a female Megachile. The (orange) scopal hairs on the underside of the abdomen are a good defining feature that separates Megachile...
Hi all. I usually use Excel/Access for recording, but I'm considering switching to dedicated biological recording software such as Mapmate or Recorder. So I...
Alan - For HBRG data, I use Recorder 2002 as a means of validating names (but many of these are way out of date now, and I believe there will be no further ...
I know this isn't going to be favoured by many, but I use Google Earth. This is mainly so that it can accommodate non-UK records, but I've also developed a...
Alan, I use MapMate, which is not perfect (I've yet to see a perfect database!) but does have up-to-date taxonomy, is relatively user- friendly, relatively...
Murdo, Mike, Martin, many thanks for your replies. I intend to use if for organising my own records rather than uploading to NBN Gateway (not sure if...
Alan, It's true that MapMate imposes a data structure and that you cannot add additional fields to it, but it is very flexible in the way data can be formatted...
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