Hi Nico, We have just started on a lottery funded project in the UK called Open Air Laboratories (OPAL), which is partly a big science project, and partly...
Apologies to accidentally posting this to everyone, I was replying to a mail that I thought was from Nico directly! I will tell you all more about this project...
Hallo Bernard Today (Saturday 6 Dec 2008) we went for a walk in Valley Gardens and Heather Garden at Windsor Great Park (SU96, right on the borders of Berks....
Hi Steve good to hear that you have them up here as well. Here on the farm we only have one small Mahonia, but lots of gorse - too much for me to check. We...
Hi All, I saw a little Bombus terrestris worker with a small pollen load at lunch time today, 09-Dec-2008, following a lovely sunny morning down here in...
Hi Debbie good to hear about the bees up there and the Red admiral. Four or five smallish B. terrestris workers still struggling gathering nectar on my Mahonia...
Hi On Saturday 6th Dec.in my South facing front garden here in Torpoint Cornwall, I had 4 x worker Bombus Ter. on my heather, +1 on my Mahonia still nectaring...
Ladies & Gents Loads of BRILLIANT records already of winter active Bombus. Any chance of postcodes/Grid Refs so that I can map them? I hope to produce the...
Hi My name is Colin from Lowestoft in Suffolk. I am keen to learn more about Hymenoptera and fill in some gaps in north Suffolk. My local area is Lothingland...
Dear Colin, I'm afraid all I can manage is five common bumblebees! Contact me via hymenoptera@... and I'll send them to you. I think we've corresponded...
Thanks I will be very happy to recieve any help & records. yes I was once a member of the SNS. CJ. ________________________________ From: Adrian Knowles...
Hello, as insipired by a previous poster, I've recently joined the BWARS and was wondering if there was anyone in my area who would be willing to help out a...
Hi Brian ........and welcome to BWARS. We have some key folks at the Liverpool Museum viz. Carl Clee and Guy Knight. They may well be able to direct you to...
Hi, I can suggest joining the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. They have one or two active members who are interested in aculeates. The society...
Hallo All This is to say thank you to Stuart for having compiled the new map "Winter-active Bombus 2008/9" (14 Dec 2008) and put it on the web- site. See...
Hello, I have posted two photos of Nomada species I have provisionally named but realise that doing so from photos is dodgy. The possible marshamella had a...
Active bumblebee nest at Windsor Great Park on 17 Dec 2008. Hallo All Today my wife and I visited the Valley Gardens at Windsor Great Park. A fine sunny day...
Hi Stuart up to four B.terrestris workers (at any one time)on the Mahonia here at Rospannel Farm VC1 every day this week, up to today Saturday before...
Hello, Does anyone recognize this insect ? Is it a fly or another orde ? ...  ... Chantal Deschepper ch.deschepper@... Before printing, think about...
Fellow Bumblers B. terrestris activity this morning (23 Dec) amid the murk. 1 queen and 3 workers at flowers of Mahonia x media here in Salisbury. The Web site...
Hi all,as I'm new to this group I'm not quite sure if this is off topic or not but I had this parasitic wasp emerge from a Stigmella aurella mine (micro moth)...
Hi Charlie  Your parasitoid is a chalcid wasp in the super-family Chalcidoidea. The below link to the NHM web page will fill you in on the diversity and...
Thanks for the great link and the info on the wasp Scotty.I wish I'd hung onto it now it looked quite striking for it's tiny size.I'm trying to get into...
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