Not sure if they do much good, but if anyone's interested, there's a couple of bee-related petitions on the 10 Downing Street website. The first calling on the...
As everyone should know, the real cause of honeybee decline has already been revealed: http://sevenstars61.blogspot.com/2007/05/we-ask-bees.html Karl...
What a load of tripe! The sad thing is, this person is probably serious. Bees channelling? The only thing missing is that is was passed on by a 'red indian'...
Increased government funding for bee research announced just this week. And that's not quite the same conversation as I have been having with my own bees. Here...
Some of us have been warning for months and years about neonicotinoids killing bees. The British Bee Keepers Association will not listen, but the Co-op is now...
I've just been surprised by the appearance of what I assume to be a Myrmica ant on my bathroom floor! Being a downstairs bathroom in an old house it is not...
Louise, I would agree that this is probably caused by birds. I have had lots of trouble from birds in the past, even completely pulling out the cardboard...
Hi Marc Thanks very much for that info. - I will try the chicken wire. Do the birds not just hang onto the wire as they feed or does it have to be very small...
Apologies for the cross post from UK Botany !! Regarding the interesting thread on Ants and Seed distribution of some of our British Flora I am trying to pull...
Those of you who receive the Apoidea Digest will no doubt have this. Those that don't may find the following online version of the book of interest: ...
Dear Colin  This paper on myrmecochory by Dr.Nikki Gammans et al may be of interest if you have not already seen it:  Gammans et al (2005). Ant benefits...
Scotty Very Much appreciated I am just putting together a web format in which to add links etc so it will be very useful. I shall shorly post a draft for any...
Members might be interested in a forthcoming lecture at the Linnean Society of London (Burlington House, Piccadilly) on THURSDAY 19 February at 6.00pm (Check...
Members might be interested in a forthcoming lecture at the Linnean Society of London (Burlington House, Piccadilly) on THURSDAY 19 February at 6.00pm (Check...
Hi, I am currenlty identifying bees collected in pan traps last summer. I'm having a few problems splitting the above 2 bees. I'm using the striae on the...
Hi All Saw ten B. terrestris queens on white heather in Penzance on Tuesday 17 Feb 2009 but NO workers and none of the queens had pollon loads. Bernard...
Hallo Bernard On the same day (Tuesday 17 Feb) we saw just two B.terrestris queens in Windsor Great Park. One was on winter heather and one still on Mahonia x...
19th Feb: indet. bumblebee seen in the Essex Wildlife Trust HQ gardens at Great Wigborough, near Colchester. One of our volunteers reports seeing a bumblebee...
Hi Apologies if this is the wrong way to do things! Have been visiting garden centres looking for winter flowering shrubs and saw a B. terrestris worker...
Hi Patrick just to add to what Leila wrote, it's an Italian strain of honey bee, commonly imported from New Zealand by beekeepers, the golden bands on abdomen...
A male Anthophora plumipes was chasing Eristalis tenax females around the Snowdrops today in a Reading cemetery. A few honey bees there too, but no bumbles...
In the glorious sunshine today I saw my first bees of the year. Not a Bombus species as one might expect, but several male Anthophora plumipes nectaring [or...
Hi all, we have spotted our first bee of the year, this morning, a Bombus terrestris queen visiting snowdrops in the garden. Leslie South Lincs [VC53/TF12] ,...
Hi Steve, The males are probably out early & waiting for the females. They usually go on patrol and visit flowers for nectar - and leave all the pollen...
Dear Shaun, I presume you are looking at females. In leucopus, the face is very round when looking "head-on" whilst in morio it is quite elongated. This is...
