Hi Adam some more thoughts - i think bee nests of some design - bundles in tubes or in wooden boxes would be your best bet and then just see what species are...
For anyone interested: LNU (Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union) Annual General Meeting & Presidential Address. The AGM will be followed by the Presidential...
Stuart, As usual, you called this correctly, Dave Wilton passed me the specimen and it is a male Osmia caerulescens, not only very early in the year (13 Feb)...
Hi All, I thought the following might be of some use/interest here. Some of you may be aware that there's some concern over an invasive ant in Europe. The ant,...
I have little doubt that this will turn up in the UK; the question is when and how well established will it be when it's found. Unlike the harlequin ladybird...
Radio Scotland 'phoned me last week to do one of these 'terror bug means the end of civilisation as we know it' stories on the back of the Daily Mail article. ...
Hi Murdo, No, not the end of the world for sure - and as Mike L. suggests, it may be only us ant-hunters who are likely to notice (or care)! However if it's...
This popped up on one of the e-mail lists I subscribe to - perhaps one or two people here might be interested in these keys. "This message posted for Claus...
s.s could be sensu stricto and s.l sensu lato. If you have species A, that is later found to be two species, A + B, sensu stricto would mean that you have...
Whilst on the subject of US bees; a friend of mine went on a recent business trip to San Francisco. Amongst shots of many birds, he got this image of a bumble...
Hi Louise ... from ... Northumberland 2 ... like ... Definitely a female A. cineraria. Could you pm me with the details so it can be entered into the database?...
Or even Bombus vosnesenskii ;-) Stuart (Jr) ======================================== Message Received: Mar 07 2008, 11:46 PM From: "Stuart Roberts" To:...
!!> Or even Bombus vosnesenskii ;-) My spelling is sometimes sub-standard!! SH is right of course Stuart (The other one) ... Stuart Roberts Chairman BWARS ...
Sorry for cross-posting. I'm apparently not allowed to sign up to the beetles-britishisles group, so these two groups seem likely to be the best option. Is...
Mike It is a species of Tachinus - Lamprinodes has wider apical segments to the antennae. If you post a close up of the surface of the elytra, the end of the...
Hi Mike It looks like a male Tachinus rufipes, which I think is probably the commonest species - I find it more often than the others anyway. Tachinus spp...
Hi Stuart, fantastic! Many thanks for that [with right or wrong spelling]. How on earth did you know this, given this is only found along the western coastal...
Hi Mike No, I don't think it is coincidence - that is like two people bumping into each other in the street. The Tachinus was there for a reason/s, which we...
I take your point about semantics! What I meant was that I can't, or at least am reluctant to, call it a myrmecophile based simply upon finding it in an ants...
Hi everyone Saw a worker B. hypnorum with a full pollen load visiting an ornamental Prunus on Kew underground station yesterday (Sat 8 March). Keep your eyes...
Hi Stuart could only manage, 10 B. terrestris Qs and 2 workers, 3 B. pratorum Qs today at Hayle, Cornwall ... From: Stuart Roberts To: bwars@yahoogroups.com ...
Hi Stuart Thanks for your help with the three photo/IDs. With reference to the Andrena cineraria I am just putting all my identified species from last year on...
Hi Newbie here, Having moved into a property that has a small garden over a year ago, i have enjoyed designing and planting the bare back yard, and equally ...
Hi, I'm no expert on bees or heathers, but different plants give up their nectar at different times of day and under different weather conditions. You will...
Hallo there I visit the Heather Gardens at Windsor Great Park fairly frequently during the winter to observe bumblebees. There are extensive plantings of...
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