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Dear BWARS, perhaps you can help me. I'm planning to start surveying some 'bee banks' which have been dug some time ago into sand & gravel areas on a local...
Hi Mick Interesting project. Where are you based? There is no shortage of BWARS presence in most of out heathy areas in UK. I could very probably put you in...
The latest issue of the journal "British Wildlife" contains an article on the wildlife (including aculeate Hymenoptera) of former tin mines in Cornwall. Worth...
At last... Anthophora plumipes in my Salisbury garden! Males in abundance on 14 March visiting Pulmonaria flowers. Every day this week there have been about a...
S I shall bring my net on Sunday (really). G ... From: Stuart Roberts [mailto:eucera@...] Sent: 18 March 2005 10:15 To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
18/03/2005 - 10°C at 9 a.m., B. terrestris queen foraging on Stinking Hellebore. By 2.45pm temp up to 19°C, 3 x male Anthophora plumipes chasing each other...
Not so much activity in the West Midlands, but still a good start to the spring. Queen and possibly worker B terrestris on various flowers. The quen was...
Had a quick look at a big male sallow in full bloom at Dintom Pastures today. In between the honeybees working hard I found queens of Bombus lucorum,...
Matt, had a traips round Dinton myself this afternoon, not a lot of sallow in bloom. A cracking example near the tuck shop though, as you say heaving with...
On a visit to Denny Wood, New Forest, in glorious conditions on Saturday (March 19th), I recorded both sexes of Andrena clarkella and A. praecox, a male A....
Hello, You may or may not be aware of this, but the BBC is running a Springwatch recording initiative where they have asked people to record when they saw...
Hi The big problem with the "SpringWatch" stuff is that the term "Bumble bee" is not much more specific than the term "bird". Some bumbles are out very early.....
Apparently summer arrived in the Mendips yesterday. I had alate Formica lemani females near Charterhouse, though admittedly only a few in one spot only....
Hi everyone, I've just joined the group [after reading the 'plug' in British Wildlife Magazine!]. I am very much a beginner and my interests are mostly...
Hello Steve, I am generalist wildlife enthusiast with special interests other than bees. I have made a note that the commensal relationship appears to be...
Hello all, First Anthophoras today in Shrewsbury. 2 males flying about Pulmonaria. ID Help: I photographed a medium-small Andrena yesterday and would...
Nigel I would be thinking along the lines of Andrena clarkella - one of the early spring sallow specialists. Regards Matt Nigel Jones <npatjones@...>...
Hello Ray, You can always type key words into Google. I am tempted to say that the mite is a deutonymph of Parasitellus. However, this is just a wild guess....
The specimen is a female Andrena clarkella, the form with pale golden hairs on tergite 1 (or more) instead of black. This species flies from March to May and...
George, Brilliant! Thanks very much for the ID to species level - very useful. ... From: George Else To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005...
Matt, Thanks for this. George Else also says A clarkella. ... From: Matt Smith To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: Re:...
Many thanks Malcolm and Andy. my initial description was intuitively correct then - more luck than judgement;o) Rather a different arrangement to some of the...
Spring now getting into gear here in Shrewsbury. A couple of Chrysis spp were investigating my bee posts today. A single female Andrena fulva was seen in the...
I thought that I'd posted a message yesterday but it never appeared,so here goes again... Lots of activity in the garden. Anthophora males chasing females and...
What a fortnight!! My Salisbury garden is now stiff with Anthophora plumipes -probably about 2 dozen at any one time at Pulmonaria and Muscari flowers. ...
Wow! 2 dozen Anthophora. The most I ever get in my Shrewsbury garden is 2 or 3. Still no females here yet. ... From: Stuart Roberts To: bwars@yahoogroups.com ...
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