Hallo everyone At midday today (Friday 1 February)I saw a very early Queen Bombus pratorum. She was warming up in bright sunshine on a concrete path, then...
Andrew, Many thanks, the extra information is useful as they are developing the site soon. Stuart R. tells me there was a gap in records between Southampton &...
... Many thanks for the suggestion of the diggings possibly being the Minotaur Dung Beetle. Having done further investigations, I've discovered that very few...
Hi Marc, you raise some interesting points but suspect that a lot of exotics will get planted anyhow, especially down here in Cornwall. But to change the...
Hello They will also take sheep dung (if that has any relevance to your inquiry), as I observed on the Isle of Lundy. Apologies for non-hymenoptera comments! ...
Dear all, I am pleased to announce the release of the new issue of OSMIA, the newsletter of (french-speaking) apidologists. Here's an outline of the contents...
I am hoping to encourage bumblebees to nest in my garden this year and have heard that they are attracted to old mouse nests. Having just rescued a Field Vole...
Hallo everyone Early this afternoon I was surprised to see a Queen Bombus hypnorum foraging for nectar on a Lonicera fragrantissima in my garden (Yateley, NE...
This is a postscript to the previous posting. My daughter has just reported seeing a Queen Bombus lapidarius foraging for nectar on a crocus this afternoon at...
Hi Derek, It might be worth a try but I would want to release the vole back to the wild. You could go to your local pet shop and ask for used mouse bedding -...
First bumblebee bee of the year today, a fine specimen of a queen B.terrestris nectaring on Pulmonaria. Location- Consall Nature Park SJ994484, Staffordshire...
First bumblebee bee of the year today, a fine specimen of a queen B.terrestris nectaring on Pulmonaria. Location- Consall Nature Park SJ994484, Staffordshire...
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Hi I would suggest a male Andrena clarkella, this species seems to be one of the earliest of the spring species, I have recorded it flying in February a few...
Guys I can report that the first female A. clarkella of the year in Belgium was recorded in Spa on Saturday afternoon ... on Sunday, there were Nomada ...
... We've also had success with Bumblebees using old tit nests in bird boxes at a Local Nature Reserve here in North Staffordshire. With your examples, what...
Hi James, last year there were several Bombus nests in the outside face of a stack of old bales of hay in our Dutch barn, I had assumed that they were reusing...
... a ... regularly in ... Never seen a hornet nestbox, and have to ask if one is necessary - if you have decent oak woodland and hornets are starting to...
Thankyou Sarah/Matt, you've both inadvertantly solved a puzzle I thought would remain so. I had an identical bee to Sarahs land on my car windscreen last...
Are you sure the origin of the material is important, and not where it is and how it is formed? What is it about the vole that would make it's bedding...
Hi James, Of the three boxes most used in the bumble take-overs, one is about 1.5 m high on an open trellis fence; and the other two are about 2m up on a brick...
First there was a B. terrestris worker + pollen load, visiting the Lonicera x purpusei; then a big B. terrestris queen foraging the white Erica; then something...
If you don't feel like making one, Alana ecology sell woodcrete ones for £80+. Not sure if the landowner is that keen though! Other than that I agree with...
Can anyone give me some advice on the most useful size for the grid on microscope eyepiece graticules as an aid to drawing aculeates? With a mock-up one made...
Maggie I have had Anthrophora plumipes (male) here (Yateley, Hants) on 10, 11 Feb. Last year the first sightings were on 6, 7, 8 March 2007. Steve Farmer ...
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