Hi Adam, Several years ago, on inspecting my red mason bee boxes, I found several tubes glued together with a clear material and there were white larvae within...
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Adam Bates
adam_j_bates
Feb 2, 2010 1:13 pm
Hi Maggie,    I would say you're definately along the right lines. I had guessed a Hylaeus of some kind or other, but hadn't really considered Colletes...
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nick.owens86
Feb 2, 2010 9:43 pm
Hi Adam, I recently found some cocoons of what I think is Colletes succinctus which had been exposed when snow dislodged chunks of sandy cliff on Kelling...
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Adam Bates
adam_j_bates
Feb 3, 2010 10:12 am
Thanks Nick,    Apparently Hylaeus, in contrast to Colletes, impregnate the polyeseter 'cellophane' with some silk as well, but I am not entirely sure...
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Maggie
maggiefrankum
Feb 4, 2010 12:14 am
Hi Adam & Nick, I'll leave you to do the detective work - the tubes were the larger 8mm internal diameter ones intended for red mason bees. Just for...
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Adam Bates
adam_j_bates
Feb 4, 2010 9:06 am
Thanks for the photo Maggie, those are the most untidy megachile cells I've ever seen. I guess it really does depend on the shape of the space they're nesting...
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adam_j_bates
Feb 5, 2010 1:47 pm
Hi All, Thanks for the ideas with the other photos that are likely to be Hylaeus. I have uploaded another couple of photos into the 'Pre-adult tube nesting...
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mj_hughes
Feb 6, 2010 11:21 pm
Hi, I saw these bees on holiday in Turkey, they used to come and roost on bits of vine hanging vertically. I've seen some references to bees behaving like this...
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asgrace4
Feb 7, 2010 9:19 am
Hello Mike, They appear to be very freshly emerged females of the Anthophorine genus Amegilla. There are several possible species and one candidate is Amegilla...
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Little
brianhlittle
Feb 7, 2010 12:57 pm
Hi Adam, We've come a bit late to this conversation but might be able to help. Stephanie and I are fairly new to stem-nesting species but have had lots of help...
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Adam Bates
adam_j_bates
Feb 8, 2010 9:47 am
Hi Brian & Stephanie, Â Â Â Many thanks for bringing those photos to my attention. A couple of questions about them... did the Pemphredon and Trypoxylon cells...
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Bernard Hocking
gbernardh...
Feb 8, 2010 8:04 pm
Hi All 6 Feb 2010.,Bombus terrestris 3 workers on Mahonia at Hayle SW1, one with full pollen loads, also 3 Apis mellifera workers. Bernard ... From: Bernard...
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Dries Laget
dries_laget
Feb 12, 2010 1:54 pm
Dear Bee Specialists, At the University of Ghent (Belgium) we would like to start a research on pathogens of solitary bees. Little is known about viruses or...
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Bernard Hocking
gbernardh...
Feb 17, 2010 5:36 pm
Hi All just going through some photos taken this year using the X-cam microscope gismo, came across this small bee, with such a poor image I don't suppose...
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asgrace4
Feb 18, 2010 9:44 am
Bernard, It looks likely to be a small species of Lasioglossum. A female and possibly Lasioglossum smeathmanellum (Kirby). Best Regards Andrew...
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Bernard Hocking
gbernardh...
Feb 18, 2010 5:02 pm
Thanks Andrew that fits, as we do get L.smeathmanellum, I think this one was a particularly small specimen, ( but you could not know that from the photo.) ...
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Pierre MILLE
mille_pierre
Feb 18, 2010 8:36 pm
Hello Bernard, Tell me your lady Lasioglossum you had photographed where ? Best wishes Pierre  ________________________________ ...
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adam_j_bates
Feb 19, 2010 12:06 pm
Hi All, The two pictures I have just uploaded are, I suspect, Chelostoma (most probably florisomne), one close up, and one showing the nest structure. The...
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adam_j_bates
Feb 19, 2010 12:13 pm
A small correction to that. Sapyga quinquepunctata has a small anterior wort on the cocoon so the parasite is not this....
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Pierre MILLE
mille_pierre
Feb 20, 2010 4:09 pm
Hello everyone, I live 25 km from Paris and I noticed a mild 12 degrees celcius is this spring pointing the tip of her nose ? How is this home ? best wishes  ...
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Bernard Hocking
gbernardh...
Feb 20, 2010 4:41 pm
Hi Pierre in Cornwall we say "that if you can cover seven Daisies ( Bellis ), with your foot, Spring has arrived." It has not arrived here. Bernard ... From:...
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Pierre MILLE
mille_pierre
Feb 20, 2010 4:51 pm
Hi Bernard, You're right it's probably too early ! If the weather continues like this we should see our Apoidea fly ! I watch my little bees hotels :) Best...
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Jay
hawkmoths2000
Feb 20, 2010 5:14 pm
I saw one of the spider hunting wasps today on dorset heathland , + 1 male adder, was only 6 degrees today. ... From: Bernard Hocking...
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debbie_allan
Feb 20, 2010 10:43 pm
Hi All, could anyone offer an id from the 2 pics I have put in Files, 'Debbie in Hampshire', the relevant files are named Q3... It was rather unusual:...
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johnkinsey92
Feb 21, 2010 1:00 am
Hello, Having downloaded all my photos from Hungary, Ive found an out of focus picture of the wasp that had been building mud cells and filling them with up...
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Charles David
charles_davi...
Feb 21, 2010 8:43 am
Dear Debbie It's a Nomada, probably N. fabriciana Best wishes Charles ... From: bwars@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bwars@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of debbie_allan ...
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lib.dvorak
libordvorak
Feb 21, 2010 9:12 am
Hi, I would say Sceliphron curvatum (Sphecidae), origonally sub-Himalayan species introduced into Europe, more or less widespread in ca. southern half of...
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debbie_allan
Feb 21, 2010 2:53 pm
Charles, thank you very much for responding. That is another new species to add to my 'garden list - which currently stands at 570 named species, plus 123...
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johnkinsey92
Feb 21, 2010 11:16 pm
Hello, Many thanks Libor, once I had the name I was able to recognise it immediately through the Wikimedia Commons website. The photos even showed the same...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
Feb 22, 2010 9:28 am
My honeybee hive woke briefly a couple of weeks ago with workers flying in and out of the hive on a sunny afternoon. Since then they have sensibly retired...
