Hi! Is this Nomada flava? Nomada flava <http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3275679701&size=large> Location: Algarve, Portugal Date Photo Taken: March...
Hi Valter, It is not very clear to ID it. Leila ... De: Valter Jacinto <pulgacab-127@...> Objet: [bwars] Nomoda flava ??? À: bwars@yahoogroups.com Date:...
Please forgive me for posting a non-aculeate request! Does anyone have a copy of Boucek, Z. 1956. Notes on the Czechoslovak Perilampidae. Acta Faunistica...
Bonjour à tous et toutes, Je me présente Pierre MILLE je demeure en France à Herblay dans le Val d'Oise (95). Je suis nouveau sur ce site et j'ai adhéré...
Bonjour Pierre, Bienvenue! Si il est plus facile de parler votre langue maternelle, s'il vous plaît le faire. Cependant, vous trouverez notre français mai...
Hallo all This morning was fine and sunny here at Yateley, NE Hants (SU86). Just before midday I saw a queen Bombus hypnorum visiting hellebores. A couple of...
Thanks Steve very interesting set of obversations, nice to hear some good news, Bernard ... From: sfgfarmer To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 07,...
Saturday 7th March saw a female Anthophora plumipes inspecting my garden Lungwort - spring is definitely here (although it did hail this afternoon!!)...
Hallo Steve, My English is very bad so I ask you to forgive me. I am eager to learn more about not only your language, but meiux the study of wild bees. For...
Hallo Steve, My home in 49 Herblay latitude and longitude 2.16667 cool because it at 9:00 (GMT hours) it is just 8 degrees. My garden is late because we had a...
Bonjour Pierre Yateley is in the valley of the River Blackwater. Sand and gravel have been quarried all along the valley. After gravel extraction has...
Steven, Indeed, the section on Bombus is very well done I did not think we could observe Bombus at temperatures so low! On the occasion that you advise me on...
Hi Please can anyone suggest what this bee might be - found while sorting through old photos, from Aug.2006. I think it is a male, Its wings are worn round the...
Hello Nigel I know this site I have the No. 1 and 2 of OSMIA review, I had the chance to meet the editor in chief at a meeting in Orsay near Paris. best...
Hello Leslie, I am not the most qualified person but in my humble opinion I see the 1st photo 2 cells or ulnar submarginales for nervulus I see more postfurcal...
Saw my first Andrena on Coltsfoot flowers today at Carlton Marshes Suffolk. it had a shiny thorax with orange hairs down side of abdomen. Colin. East Point...
Merci beaucoup, Pierre I have been interested in Bumblebees for a long time, but I still don't know much about identifying solitary bees. It has been a good...
Hi, I'm looking at pinned specimens which I have keyed out to either Halictus tumulorum or H.confusus. Some of the bees were collected in the west sussex area...
Thanks for this, Colin. I'm trying to fathom out which species it is!! Adrian ... From: Colin Jacobs To: hymenoptera Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:05 PM ...
me too It was defo an Andrena East Point Photography. Landscape and Nature http://www.freewebs.com/benacre/index.htm ________________________________ From:...
Hello, Today we visited a plant nursery on the hunt for Pulmonaria officinalis. With many nectar plants there was a lot of bee and hoverfly activity. At least...
Ian, I can't think of any metallic blue bees with white spots (or woithout spots for that matter). Very intriguing. I think you'll have to pot one to have any...
After interminable days of waiting for bee activity to take off here in Shropshire, today at last there were two Anthophora plumipes patrolling Pulmonaria in...
It's a complete guess as we don't have them up here but could the black bees with white patches be Melecta sp, most lkely albifrons? I expect it's an early...
Nigel/Brian, Thanks for the input as it sounds like I have misinterpreted what was in front of me. Definitely one to try and pot. Cheers Ian _____ From:...
Dear Ian, Melecta albifrons is way bigger than "6-8mm". Lasioglossum morio is metallic blue/green, can be active in March and about the right size but does...
Hi Nigel, I saw my first Anthophora plumipes male in the garden yesterday, which is about a month later than the first one last year. I still await the...