Dear All, A few weeks ago I found a female Spilomena in my porch here in Edinburgh that looks almost certainly to be curruca. I can't find much information on...
Having been stung by wasps which had built a nest in our back hedge (unbeknown to us until that moment!), we reluctantly decided to call in pest control to...
Hi Dorian, Using George Else's key in British Wildlife [Vol 5, N°5,June 1994], a Dolichovespula media queen and a dark worker were found last week in ...
I'm having trouble identifying a wasp I found dead in a light shade tonight. Can anyone help? I can't past the picture into the body of this message, sorry....
Hello, There are no records of Dolichovespula media on our copy of recorder (the computer program we use to manage our records). This does not surprise me as...
Hi all I was out yesterday in a disused quarry north of Oxford. Most of the usual bumblebees were present, I saw B.terrestris, lucorum, pascuorum, lapdarius,...
This handsome little chap was in my garden this afternoon basking in warm sunshine. He had been on Margarite flowers and his pollen baskets were stuffed. He...
Hello everyone My name is Don and I am a coleopterist. However, I have a question that some nice person on this group may know the answer to! A few years ago I...
Hi Don, Without going to any books (which curiosity may lead me to do anyway, but probably tomorrow morning as it's too late now) the only thing I remember of...
Hi Susie, I can't do your bee but for the hoverfly, try Myathropa florea [British Hoverflies, Alan Stubbs & Steve Falk]. They fly around me when I'm working...
Hi Mike Thanks for that! I looked in the RES key by Bolton & Collingwood and it says that the sp has indeed been found in a coal mine in Kent. What is...
Hello, This one looked like a wasp to me, although it was smaller than the Common Wasp. Perhaps one of the Digger Wasps (Chinery page 237) possibly the Bee...
This is clearly a worker Dolichovespula sylvestris, a common social species which is often found at this time of year. George Else ... From: British Marine...
Hello all In Bolton Museum we have a collection of Hymenoptera which contains a large number of specimens collected by Schmiedeknecht. I know nothing about him...
Dear Don, Professor Dr. Otto Schmiedeknecht (1847-1936) was a well known hymenopterist in his day and is, perhaps, best known for his mammoth tome Die...
Dear George Thanks for that! I want to research our Schmiederknecht material eventually and see if we have any types. Probably not. It must be a bit...
After some years of frustration I have started to make a determined effort to identify some of the solitary bees in my Sussex garden. In the last few days I...
Hi I'm afraid I am no use to you, as I, similarly, am wrestling with bee ids and trying to improve. However, I seem to have overlooked the Lassioglossum ...
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For those not on the Hoverfly e-mail group and may not have heard about this yet. My colleague (Nick Mott) has produced a useful guide and introduction to...
Does anyone know anything about BW&A and the DAISY project? (I am new, so I don't know whether it has been discussed on this group). I heard about it on the...
Yes... I know a bit about it... but things are not (how shall I put it?) quite as simple as they may at first appear. DAISY is an elegant tool BUT (apparently)...
Hi everyone I am working to assist Dr. Michael Kuhlmann ("Don Colletes") on a project looking at phylogeny and relationships within the Colletes succinctus...
In article <de4osb+mnsg@eGroups.com>, Stuart Roberts wrote: Hi Stuart, I am pretty much done for survey this year but do have a couple of visits to make to...
This has come a trifle late for me, Stuart, but maybe not too late yet. If you let me have the details I will see what I can do. Certainly it is common to...
As a coleopterist I am a little behind here. Is the Colletes a 'problem' because it mines in gardens in large numbers and is too evident? I know a lot of...
Yes, Don, more or less that. One difficult case in NW Sutherland has a large aggregation in a village cemetery. I am working with SNH and the local Council ...
Hornets have appeared in my part of East Sussex (north of Hastings) in the last few years and now seem to be quite common. We are privileged this year to have...
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