Please find below a request from antonio looking for support/assistance with invertebrate ID in Spain. They also undertaken "testing" days which is essentially...
Earthwatch Debate: Irreplaceable – the World's Most Invaluable Species Thursday 20th November, 7.00pm-9.00pm, at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington...
Thankyou Stuart Yes the Colletes have been around for about a week but I wasn't able to photograph one until yesterday (4/06) The Osmia were photographed on...
Hi folks I have placed a Bee M1 M2 M3 in the folder below for comment http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/photos/browse/9477? b=43&m=t&o=0 many thanks...
Hello, I have loaded two new photographs into my 'Lizzy Peat' file, two wasps nests found in Sussex garden sheds. Any idea what made them? Interestingly, one...
Hi Lizzy, the blue nest is of any Dolichovespula. Their envelop is in different colors in gray scale. The exact color depends on wood which is collected for...
I have been digging up my garden in preparation for building a chicken coop and have found at least seven bumble bees. They are nesting in a large pile of...
I've just posted two rather poor photos of a bee with long antennae to johnofkentimages. Taken today in Kent, TQ 721 411. Help with ID would be much...
Hi John These are pics of male Eucera (newly added to the BAP lists). It is probably E. longicornis but in Kent, there is still a possibility that this might...
Thank you Libor! Best, Lizzy Peat ... From: bwars@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bwars@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lib.dvorak Sent: 09 June 2008 10:36 To:...
Dear Alan, thank you very much for this notice. The DiscoverLife Checklist can be accessed from the page you provide and Old World species can be searched as...
Hi Andrew Its not just the Americans.... all regions are contributing to this and it is being fostered by GBIF and the Barcode of Life (among others)....
I have been sent a photo of a snail shell, plugged with mud, with the question - is this likely to be Osmia species? Not having ever seen this myself, I can't...
This doesn't look like the work of a bee to me. Our 3 species of snail shell nesters all seal their nests with leaf mastic. It is possible that Osmia rufa...
Thanks Stuart, I forgot that our Osmias that use shells are all "leaf sealers". I agree that this does not look like the work of Osmia rufa. Unfortunately the...
Hello All The Surrey Wildlife Trust has organised a short series of field meetings for biological recorders. These are aimed at all groups - botanists,...
Hi Nigel, Think your photo's just a snail that's settled down on damp mud/soil and then been pulled free and taken a plug of soil with it. It may have been ...
Dear all Some time ago, my brother was carrying out work in his attic, which contained a lot of rubble and yellow fibregasss insulation. He noticed that the...
Hallo Don Last year my neighbour had a large and very successful B.terrestris nest in his attic. It had nested in fibreglass insulation as you describe. In...
Hi all  A couple more records of Bombus hypnorum from my garden in Winnersh. This morning I saw a worker with full pollen baskets working over a stand...
Hi Matt & all, Saw my first hypnorum in my garden in Earley the weekend before last. At least 4 workers on Cotoneaster salicifolius 'Rothschildianus'. (I just ...
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