Hi there I saw a Queen of this species in my garden yesterday 31/07/08 here in Wadebridge, North Cornwall. She was feeding on the flowers of Leycesteria...
Hi Peter...  All records are of interest to us, so many thanks for posting this.  You could check out the current distribution at www.searchnbn  Best...
Good News one and all  The NBN posted our updated dataset on the NBN Gateway yesterday. This now represents the bulk of BWARS data and contains several...
Hi, Fortuitously, I caught my second specimen of this species last weekend, 26th July. Like my first from a couple of years ago it was a male which was feeding...
Afternon all  I came across this while looking through some of the junk that falls out of the Saturday papers. Looks like another garden ornament for the...
I would be grateful if someone could advise me which is the best (i.e clear and user friendly) and most up to date Key to British Ants, suitable for the...
Hi everyone / Benard , Nigel, Andy I just returned from my anual Treat to Gaitbvarrow and Roundsea Wood , lots to report apologies for delay in replying !!!...
Hi Adrian, Sadly, there is no single key that adequately covers British ants, so you'll probably going to have to use more than one. Barry Bolton has a draft...
HI Â John Pontin's 'Ants of Surrey' covers many of the species within the British fauna in a very simple key to workers. Excellent species accounts are also...
Hi, thanks Mike for the link to Antbase.org, I didn't download the pdf but went to the site. The weblinks there has some excellent sites, this one has many...
The pictures on Myrmecos are really great, but be aware that the Nearctic Lasius species are different from the Palaearctic species of the same name. The same...
Hi Adrian I note that your main concern seems to be determining Lasius species likely to be found on Greenham Common. And in particular determining between...
I guess you're referring to the Skinner and Allen Naturalists Handbook? This certainly has very user-friendly keys but it may be out of print now, and also it...
Hi all Sincere thanks to everyone who replied to my request for advice about British Ant keys so promptly and helpfully. The wonders of the internet! Thanks...
Hi all, I'm new here and just starting out in bee & wasp identification, an interest sparked by photography of insects and a need to put a name to everything I...
Hi Bison  Cracking photo... and yes... definitely a male Crabro cribrarius.  Check out the BWARS website "Maps" section for the known distribution. It is...
Thanks for the reply Stuart, I've checked the maps as you suggested, and there don't seem to be any records for this area. I'm also new to recording, but I'll...
Hi Stuart. I have checked out www.searchnbn and found no record for D.media in TF12, my home patch - VC53 South Lincs. We found it here in August 2005 and...
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Hi Adrian, Sounds like your nests will be L. niger s.s., but you can't always be sure based on nests - sometimes platythorax can be found where there's no...
See also Mike Lush's pages www.pbase.com/mikelush/lasius_platythorax there are pics of niger clypeus here as well as I recall.  S ... From: Alan Phillips...
Hi Andrew many thanks for the information about niger/platytthorax ID/nest sites and also for offering to ID the specimens for me. What you say about niger...
Thanks for that. Will check it out.. Adrian --- In bwars@yahoogroups.com, Scotty Dodd <jaapiella@...> ... www.pbase.com/mikelush/lasius_platythorax there are...
Re the nest sites - yes, in some sites this could be a plausible explanation, but it wasn't true for all sites. I wondered whether it was to do with niger...
My observations of niger and SSB's certainly tie in with these comments. The strongest colonies of SSB tend to be found on cut fire breaks adjacent to sandy...
I've let the subscription on this gallery run out, so these will not be up for much longer. Sadly, I don't have as much time as I once did for photography and...
I still use it! Though I did print it off on a quality printer. Nice pics and in opinion better than the micrograph ones for general use as it is more akin to...
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