Hi All, can anyone help me identify this little beauty from my garden, in Gosport, Hampshire, pic posted in Files, Debbie in Hamphire. It was fairly small for...
Dear Debbie, a fine picture. I will start off the batting with Andrena wilkella as the captains still seem to be having breakfast. wilkella is a bee which is...
I would plump for Andrena dorsata, though I'm not familiar with A.wilkella. This species is a regular in my garden, and is currently collecting pollen from my...
Thanks Andrew & Tim, I thought it might be A. dorsata, but I am only familiar with a limited number of Andrena. Can anyone tell me the distinguishing...
Yesterday in Bristol, a couple of male Bombus pratorum visiting flowers in a garden, together with queens and workers of the same. This would seem to be my...
Hi Matt, Still waiting for my first garden B. pratorum male. Last year the first one was on the 9th May. I have seen B. vestalis females on 12th April '08...
Dear Debbie, I have been clean bowled on this one. Andrena wilkella does not have hairs on the postscutellum and the posterior margin of the scutellum, or very...
Bit of a shot in the dark, but I would love to be able to put a name to this. Photographed in Oct 2007 in southern Gambia. Any ideas or any online sites that...
Hi Martin, Nice pic. Looks like a Tachytes sp. (Crabonidae), a larrine wasp genus that hunts grasshoppers. Perhaps send your photo to Dr Wojciech Pulawski...
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Hi Greg Thanks for the quick response. I will certainly try your contact, and now I have a genus will do some Googling :-) Yours Martin....
hi, Today I've seen a complete black bee with wite wings. See pict. is it possible Anthophora retusa ?? Also seen in the same area a VESPA CAbro and a...
Dear Chantal, I wonder where you took these pictures. The black bee is a female Anthophora visiting what looks like Ajuga reptans which has come up recently....
Hi, Thanks for you reply. The pictures are taken in Belgium region Mechelen. It's an area with a lot of rivers here and wet. The Anthophora plumipes see I may...
Hi Chantal I had an email from Pierre Rasmont last year concerning the status of A. retusa in Belgium, and it is clearly massively declined there over the last...
There a sort of parasite? a fly wich several exemples between the nests of osmia rufa they are 5 à 6mm long Chantal Deschepper ch.deschepper@... ...
Dear Chantal Perhaps Cacoxenus sp (Drosophilidae) Best wishes Charles David ... From: bwars@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bwars@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of chantal...
Hi I saw the two species illustrated in the album unidentified in the photo gallery. The species labelled Andrena (I am not sure of the id) was going into...
Hi Nigel Welcome on board! This looks as though it is a host/parasite pair. The host look like Andrena clarkella... and the parasites Nomada leucophthalma Best...
Hi Thanks for your help. I wasn't convinced that there would be enough to as anything more that confirming the genus. Nigel Dr. Nigel Lindsey Associate Dean...
In a brick in the front wall of my house there is a hole where a rawlplug has been removed. Last time I looked an Anthophora plumipes female was busy...
Lasius brunneus now seems to be frequent in many parts of Buckinghamshire, and yesterday I found good numbers of them running up and down a 'trail' on the...
Hi Martin I've once found L.brunneus nesting in an old decaying fence post, all the other nests I have seen have been in a variety of old trees (oak, apple,...
I have just realised that what I thought was a wasp could in fact be a Nomada spp. http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/photos/view/1c14?b=1 If this is...
Hi Through looking at the NBN Gateway if it is this parasitic pair then this would constitute a new 10k square record for both species. What do I need to ...
Hi Martin, We had it as an enquiry a couple of years ago from an 'posh' hotel in Oxfordshire, where ants kept appearing in the bedrooms. The building was...
... These are Red Mason-bees (Osmia rufa). The pics are of males. They nest in existing holes in wood, mortar and brickwork. The species is common and...
Hi, As Stuart says, they are Osmia rufa males - fascinating, entertaining and useful bees to have in the garden [pollinating fruit blossoms]. I have several...
Stuart, Osmia rufa are not that common up here in the north, we've had three record in quick succession. Your comment that Osmia rufa are safe to have with...
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