I have looked on the BBC site etc for the start date and cannot find anything. The book is out and the video is released before Christmas, but I don't know...
There's info on another site:- starts: 23rd November on BBC1 at 9pm. Should be good! Maggie ... find anything. The book is out and the video is released before...
Thanks! I will look forward to it. Attenborough always does a good job. Don ... Food science Science toy Forensic science ... YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ... Visit...
Dear all, I have probably missed something from the early emails about the Attenborough issue. Could anyone remind me what the documentaries you referred to...
Dear All David Attenborough's new BBC series Life in the Undergrowth will be totally devoted to terrestrial invertebrates. The series will be on BBC1 starting...
Dear Andrew, dear all, Many thanks for this detailed answer. I have browsed the web and found that the series "Life in the undergrowth" will be available on ...
I know its been unseasonally warm recently, but I was amazed to find a freshly emerged female of Andrena flavipes in my Salisbury garden on 31 October -...
I really need some help - my friend has a hornets' nest in her chimney, and doesn't know how to remove it. Council and Rentokil won't help. She would prefer...
Why I find it irresistible to lob in thoughts from a largely ignorant position I don't know. Perhaps it is to see how near to getting it right compared to the...
You would actually do a lot of damage by destroying the nest, if the 'new queen' was still in it. That is a whole nest ful of hornets less next year. Don ... ...
Hi Joy At this time of year there is no point in going to the expense of destroying a hornet nest - the colony is likely to be in terminal decline and will...
A flavipes -that is amazing. There are still plenty of Vespula on ivy etc in Shrewsbury area. Also, a single Bombus terrestris queen was feeding on ivy flowers...
Fascinating stuff, Stuart; re: "...there is frantic activity to try and rear just a few more sexuals before the colony finally expires." "frantic?" - bit...
Hi everyone For anyone with an interest in bees... you really should check out BWARS corresponding member Paul Westrich's fantastic site. The text is in German...
Hi Nigel, 7°C overnight and 11°C now, sunny with strong winds from the SW. A Bombus pasc. male ended up being blown onto the back doorstep, with it's leg...
The text can be translated for you by web-based translator services. Leading me to wonder: what are "game bees"? Are they hunted by packs of hornets? Mike. ......
I have had a quick look and am impressed with his photographs - nice and clear. Don ... Forensic science Science camp General ecology ... YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ...
Despite the mild, frost-free weather the hornet's nest in the roof of our house here in East Sussex became inactive about three weeks ago and the insects,...
Hi to you all experts, We live in Puerto Rico (tropics) and have these black flying insects (I think is some kind of wasp) with bring red-orange wings. It's...
Hi emeorico, I'm no expert; the reason I joined bwars was to make contact with people who knew a lot more than I did. But the first (non-expert) question I...
Hi These don't sound like wasps to me at all.... butterflies or moths sound much more likely. Good luck Stuart __________________________________ Yahoo!...
Here are more details: -The caterpillas eats the leaves off our neighbor's and my flowering plants. -The adult has black body with small shimmer of blue color....
Emeo, They could be a sawfly. Sawflies (despite their name) are actually related to wasps and can look similar. Andy Jukes MIEEM Ecological Contracts Officer ...
hello I have uploaded a couple of pictures of a wasp, in my file Gordon's Photos, which I photographed in East Sussex during August. The face features do not...
Gordon Helpful pics!. Yopu are clearly on the right track. Firstly... definitely Dolichovespula (The elongate face is diagnostic). They look like D. saxonica...
... Stuart, thank you so very much for all the information about the hornets¹ nest. They do seem to have virtually disappeared now  no sign of them round ...
Hi all There are some wonderful old illustrations of insects on the Delta-Inkey website. A page,from around 1800,depicting Bombus lapidarius also shows what ...
Hi Leslie, I've just found time to look at the B. lap pic - it looks as if they are using an old Lasius flavus/yellow meadow ants nest mound? Has anyone ever...
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